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Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swiss
Birth: January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990

Topics

Freedom Mind Becoming Only State

I am always writing to myself.

Myself I Am Writing Always Am

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Butterfly Dislike Consciousness Than

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

Best Writing You Deepest Come Most

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

Speak You Back Say Predict Going

America, we need to pray and lead from our spirits and not our emotions - and definitely not with our weapons.

America Emotions Need Lead Pray Our

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

You Grandfather Understand Irish Us

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

Life Good Heart Soul Man Joy

I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

Bike iPhone Stealing Convinced

I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.

Life Learning My Life New Skills

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

Need Buy Jackets Like Items Really

So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces... What a great gender they are.

William T. Vollmann

Life Women Great Men Gender Earth

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

Simple Influence Environment Result

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