The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political...

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political...

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

World history is tragic.

World history is tragic.

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...

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

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

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

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.

We are the world.

We are the world.

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

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

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...

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

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

Power is paradoxical.

Power is paradoxical.

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

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

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

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

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

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,...