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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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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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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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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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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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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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