Quotes By Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Power is paradoxical.

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

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

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.

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

World history is tragic.

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.

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

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.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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.

There are thoughts we must not think.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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