Quotes By Friedrich Durrenmatt

The savages don't have atom bombs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

World history is tragic.

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

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.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

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.

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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

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

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

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

Justice is horrible.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

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.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

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

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

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

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

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Truth is always a delusion.