“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 Dürrenmatt
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“Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.”
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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 all times are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“World history is tragic.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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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 Dürrenmatt
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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 Dürrenmatt
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“Truth is always a delusion.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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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.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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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.”
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“Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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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 Dürrenmatt
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“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear