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" People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only
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Us
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" A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. "
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" World history is tragic. "
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World
History
" Who sows fear, reaps weapons. "
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" The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity. "
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Only
Solved
Problems
" 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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Age
Freedom
" Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. "
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Man
Imperfect
Always
" There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. "
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" For a person who is dying only eternity counts. "
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" Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being. "
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" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "
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Mourn
Die
" When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. "
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Mince
Throat
" 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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Development
Mind
Human
" A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Until
Finished
Story
" Justice is horrible. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Justice
Horrible
" A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Possible
Worst
Thought
" The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. "
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Possible
Worst
" News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Facts
Change
World
" We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. "
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Civilized
Patriotism
Behavior
" We are the world. "
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World
" The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Birth
Hunger
Control
" Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Change The World
World
Change
" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nobody
Become
Above
" Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Want
Change
World
" This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Humane
World
Become
" 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. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Will
Strong
Science
" Power is paradoxical. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Paradoxical
Power
" It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Coffee
Over
Than
" Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Mind
Freedom
Only
" It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. "
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Continue
Inhuman
Could
" One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. "
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Lost
Set
Which