Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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

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

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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.

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.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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

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

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.