Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Justice is horrible.
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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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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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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
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There are thoughts we must not think.
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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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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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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.