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Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming total

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

Other quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Peace
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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. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Hope
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Change
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

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Freedom

Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley

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Freedom

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if youre not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I dont know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. – Hal Sparks

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Freedom

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. – Milton Friedman

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Freedom

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The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. – Rupert Murdoch

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Internet

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us. – Hector Bianciotti, Sans La Misericorde du Christ

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Relationships

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

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Books

Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so. – Estelle Morris

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Failure