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

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

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...

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...

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

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

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

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

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

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those...

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those...

Power is paradoxical.

Power is paradoxical.

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...

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

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

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

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

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

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...