Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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...

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened...

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened...

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing...

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing...

World history is tragic.

World history is tragic.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to...

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to...

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

There are thoughts we must not think.

There are thoughts we must not think.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in...

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in...

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

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

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Justice is horrible.

Justice is horrible.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

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...

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

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

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.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.