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" The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

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" Power is paradoxical. "

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" A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. "

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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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" 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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" World history is tragic. "

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" Truth is always a delusion. "

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" Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal. "

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" You can't take back an act you were able to think. "

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" 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. "

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" For a person who is dying only eternity counts. "

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" 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. "

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" A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. "

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

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" Who sows fear, reaps weapons. "

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

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" One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. "

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" News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. "

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" Justice is horrible. "

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" Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. "

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" 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. "

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" It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. "

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" It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. "

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" Human life is beyond comprehension. "

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" There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. "

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