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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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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" Truth is always a delusion. "

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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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" This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? "

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" The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. "

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