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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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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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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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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 difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to 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 savages don't have atom bombs.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for 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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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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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 archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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