Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Truth is always a delusion.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
World history is tragic.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Justice is horrible.
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
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.
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
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.
We are the world.
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
You can't take back an act you were able to think.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
Power is paradoxical.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The savages don't have atom bombs.
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
There are thoughts we must not think.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity
Humor is the mask of wisdom.
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