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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.


Friedrich Durrenmatt

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HELMUT KOHL A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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WALTER ULBRICHT Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.
PIETRO ARETINO My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.
WILHELM FRICK I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag.
REINHOLD MESSNER So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
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E. M. CIORAN One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and n...
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ADOLF HITLER The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, ...
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
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in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
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TERESA COLLINS stop looking for job, create one.
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C. JOYBELL C. I keep going back
as if Im looking for something I have lost
back to the motherland, siste...
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FRED TIDSTROM Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBES Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B C FORBES

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Succ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in ou...
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