Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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...

There are thoughts we must not think.

There are thoughts we must not think.

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

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

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look...

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look...

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,...

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

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...

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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...