Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our pres

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. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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