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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'
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
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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 bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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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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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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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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It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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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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