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“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”

Friedrich Durrenmatt · Power

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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

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World history is tragic.

History

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

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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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