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Do we still have the right to be more than victims?
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Humor is the mask of wisdom.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Truth is always a delusion.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
World history is tragic.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Human life is beyond comprehension.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The savages don't have atom bombs.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
You can't take back an act you were able to think.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Justice is horrible.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
We are the world.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
There are thoughts we must not think.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Power is paradoxical.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt