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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Friedrich Dürenmatt
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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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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
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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 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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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