Power is paradoxical.

Power is paradoxical.

Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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

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

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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

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A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

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...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...

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There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

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