Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes About Literature
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim
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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.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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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.
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Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
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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.
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Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
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Truth is always a delusion.
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back
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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.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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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.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
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People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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