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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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Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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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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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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