Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
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.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Power is paradoxical.
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.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
World history is tragic.

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