Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes and Sayings
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- Friedrich Durrenmatt (random)
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- Nationality:
- Swiss
- Birth Date / Year:
- January 5, 1921
- Death Date / Year:
- December 14, 1990
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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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For a person who is dying only eternity counts. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Human life is beyond comprehension. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Justice is horrible. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Power is paradoxical. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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The savages don't have atom bombs. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are thoughts we must not think. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Truth is always a delusion. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We are the world. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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World history is tragic. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
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You can't take back an act you were able to think. Friedrich Durrenmatt | Refcard PDF ↑
