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" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "
Nobody
Become
Above
" A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. "
Power
Looks
Like
" A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. "
Always
State
Ready
" A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. "
Possible
Worst
Thought
" A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. "
Until
Finished
Story
" 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. "
Truth
Age
Freedom
" Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. "
World
Act
Communism
" Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. "
Business
Emotions
Place
" Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being. "
Everything
World
Human
" 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. "
You
Accept
Death
" For a person who is dying only eternity counts. "
Dying
Who
Person
" 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. "
Think
Human
Man
" Human life is beyond comprehension. "
Human
Beyond
Life
" I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him. "
Him
I Am
Man
" In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. "
Effect
Wrong Way
Wrong
" It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim. "
Your
Easy
See
" It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. "
Continue
Inhuman
Could
" It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. "
Coffee
Over
Than
" Justice is horrible. "
Justice
Horrible
" Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. "
Man
Imperfect
Always
" News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. "
Facts
Change
World
" Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. "
Been
Thought
Taken
" One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. "
Lost
Set
Which
" Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. "
Mind
Freedom
Only
" 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. "
Will
Strong
Science
" People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. "
Only
Understand
Us
" Power is paradoxical. "
Paradoxical
Power
" Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. "
Dumb
Age
Old
" Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. "
Religion
Go
Political
" Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. "
Most
Act
Cost
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