Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Hell, World, Our, Our World

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Against, Only, Birth Control, Remedy

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

World, How, Humane, Inhuman

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

More, Reasonable, Deem, Analyze

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

Think, Critical, Facilitate, Critically

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Dissent, Existential, Claim

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Society, Effect, Which, Structured

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

Mind, Development, Defined

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Worst, Caused, Programmed, Coincidence

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

Strong, Will, Dangerous, Ruin

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Art, Cuisine, Which, Fully

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

Think, Survive, Becomes, Infallible

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Fear, Who, Weapons

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

Everybody, United States, Spy

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

More, Than, Above, Fatherland

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Always, Itself, Calls, Fatherland

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Change, News, Reports, Change The World

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

New, Need, Sacrifices, Change The World

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Only, Like, Last, Comedies

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

Reason, Replace, Before, Relinquish

Human life is beyond comprehension.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Beyond, Human, Human Life, Comprehension

World history is tragic.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

History, World, Tragic

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Political, Go, Expediency, Beautifully

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humanity, Only, Solved, Problems

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Mind, Becoming, Prevent, Demands

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Reality, Always, Endangered, Imperfect

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

See, Easy, Your, Victim

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Hope, Ideal, Viewpoint, Hopeless

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Continue, Could, Which, Inhuman

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

World, Human Being, Being, Dear

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Difference, Before, Commit, Wild Animals

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

Him, Hiding, Am, Humans

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

Fear, Art, Learn, Master

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Risks, Which, Acceptable, Humanity

Power is paradoxical.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power, Paradoxical

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Thought, Been, Ever, Taken

The savages don't have atom bombs.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Savages, Bombs, Atom

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Worst, Took, Until, Finished

Truth is always a delusion.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Truth, Truth Is, Always, Delusion

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Over, Surely, Confess, Coffee

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Death, Die, Someone, Mourn

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Cost, Act, Most, Senseless

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Death, Words, Mince, Throat

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

World, Set, Which, Fire

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

World, Profits, Whoever, Content

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

Behind, More, Left, Wiped

Justice is horrible.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Horrible, Justice

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Patriotism, Civilized, Behavior

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Business, Unless, Them, Emotions

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Reach, Old, Only, Dumb

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Looks, Afford, Major, Victory

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Dying, Person, Eternity, Counts

There are thoughts we must not think.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Think, Must, Thoughts

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Freedom, Only, Individual, Each Individual

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