"It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended."
-Friedrich Durrenmatt
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"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.“
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"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."
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"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect."
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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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"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand."
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"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
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"We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values."
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"The main thing I believe in is freedom."
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