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“The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Looks #Viewpoints #Literature
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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.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#News #Literature #World
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“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Coffee #Cups #Murder
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“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
#Strong #Reality #Research
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“The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Art #Literature #Cuisine
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“The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Men #Physics #Physicist
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“One does not set fire to a world which is already lost”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Fire #Doe #World
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“There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Risk #Humanity #Destruction
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“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Murder #States #Ready
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“Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Emotion
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“We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Heaven #Skins #Economic
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“A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#War #Silly #World
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“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#War #History #Religion
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“Humor is the mask of wisdom.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Funny #Wisdom #Humor
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“To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Faith #Fear #World
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“It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#People #History #Luck
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“Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Art #Work #Reality
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“Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Prayer #Praying #Meetings
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“There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Tolerance #Reason #Tolerate
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“In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Running #Country #Brake
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“Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Betrayal #Betrayed #Violence
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“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Men #Long #Deliverance
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“Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#People #Patriotism #American Flag
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“The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Power #World #Individual
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“A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Change #World #Reason
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“In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Hate #Thinking #Racism
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“The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#People #Earth #Hunger
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“Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Freedom #Justice #Grace
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“Do we still have the right to be more than victims?”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Humanity #Victim
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“The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.”
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
#Men #Evolution #Computer
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