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What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 5
Died: 1990
Died: December 14
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Konolfingen BE
P'ŭridŭrihi Dwirenmat'ŭ
Fridrikh Diurrenmatt
Fritrish Tiwrrěmat't'
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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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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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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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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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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 bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
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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 worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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Truth is always a delusion.
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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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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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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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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