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" We are the world. "
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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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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" Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. "
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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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" 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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" Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. "
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" The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. "
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" The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. "
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