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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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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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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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