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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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