Quotes By 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.

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

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

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

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 savages don't have atom bombs.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.