Swiss - Author | January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990
The savages don't have atom bombs.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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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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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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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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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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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
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