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

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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...

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...

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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

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

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

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,...

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

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...

The savages don't have atom bombs.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

There are thoughts we must not think.

There are thoughts we must not think.

We are the world.

We are the world.

Truth is always a delusion.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

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

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.

Justice is horrible.

Justice is horrible.