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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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  Murderer, Fatherland, Suspicious

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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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  Coffee, Cups, Murder

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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.

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  Faith, Fear, Our World

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• What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

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  Heaven, Needs, Redemption

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• He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

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  Reality, Paradoxical

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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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  Russia, Differences, Spy

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

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  Literature, Way, Piety

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• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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  Birth Control, Literature, Hunger

  "Portrait of a Planet" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1971.

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• Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

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  Art, Work, Reality

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• Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

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  Reality, Men, Imperfect

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• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

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  Patriotism, Literature, Behavior

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

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• We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.

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  Technology, Order, Car

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

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  War, Literature, Inhuman

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• What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

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  Concern

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

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  Existentialism, Individual, Claims

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• The savages don't have atom bombs.

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  Atoms, Savages, Bombs

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

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  Fire, Doe, Literature

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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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  Birthday, Justice, Political

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• The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

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  Literature, Coincidence, Worst

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• A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

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  Stories, Worst, Turns

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• That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

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  Prison Guards, Captivity, Would Be

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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• Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

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  Cost, Literature, Resistance

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

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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.

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  People, History, Luck

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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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  Literature, World, Communism

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• For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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  Dying, Eternity, Persons

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