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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. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "

" The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. "

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

" Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. "

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

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" We are the world. "

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" In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. "

" 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 history is tragic. "

" The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. "

" The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. "

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

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

" Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. "

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

" Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being. "