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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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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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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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Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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