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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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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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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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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.
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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 surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
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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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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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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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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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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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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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