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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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 evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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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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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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