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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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