Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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

Age, Truth, Freedom

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

Hope, Bad, Hopeless

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Hell, Tolerance, Turns

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

Before, Between, Difference

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

Act, Cost, Resistance

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

Change, Time, Same

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

Possible, Worst, Turn

Truth is always a delusion.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Truth, Delusion

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

Change, Facts, Happened

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

Today, Else, Between

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

Power, Political, Victory

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

Until, Story, Worst

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

Business, Place, Emotions

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Person, Dying, Eternity

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

Human, State, Order

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

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

Someone, Die, Dead

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

Today, Party, Democratic

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

Death, Words, Throat

You can't take back an act you were able to think.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

State, Ready, Calls

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

End, Through, Thought

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

Become, Nobody, Above

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

Act, Communism, Reasonable

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

Human, Everything, Changed

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Author

Born: January 5, 1921

Died: December 14, 1990

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