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Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effec

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. – 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. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Friedrich Durrenmatt
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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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Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions. – Michel Foucault

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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal. – Stephen Jay Gould

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. – Erica Jong

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