Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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Human life is beyond comprehension.
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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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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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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
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There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
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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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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Justice is horrible.
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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 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.
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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
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The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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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.
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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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There are thoughts we must not think.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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World history is tragic.
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You can't take back an act you were able to think.