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

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

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

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

The savages don't have atom bombs.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

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...

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Power is paradoxical.

Power is paradoxical.

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

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

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...

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

There are thoughts we must not think.

There are thoughts we must not think.

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

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

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

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

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

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

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

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...

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,...