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" A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Always
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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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" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "
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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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" Power is paradoxical. "
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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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