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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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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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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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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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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Truth is always a delusion.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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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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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 freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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 rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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