Quotes By Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
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
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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
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.
Friedrich Durrenmatt