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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
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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 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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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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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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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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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
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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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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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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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