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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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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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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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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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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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