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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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