Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the...

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the...

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change...

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change...

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

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

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst...

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst...

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if...

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if...

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does...

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does...

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to...

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to...

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must...

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must...

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer...

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer...

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

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

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more,...

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more,...

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to...

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to...

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

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

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

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

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

There are thoughts we must not think.

There are thoughts we must not think.