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There are thoughts we must not think
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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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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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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 rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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