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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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