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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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 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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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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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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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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