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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Human life is beyond comprehension.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Power is paradoxical.

Power is paradoxical.

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

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

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

Justice is horrible.

Justice is horrible.

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...

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does...

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does...