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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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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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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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