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Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes: We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
         

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


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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.



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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.



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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.



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Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.



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