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

-Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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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"Power is paradoxical."

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