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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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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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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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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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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
There are thoughts we must not think
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Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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