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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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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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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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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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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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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