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Friedrich Durrenmatt (Writer)

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 fear
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt change
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt man
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt dead
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
— Friedrich Durrenmatt world
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt hope
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt self
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt world
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt resistance
Power is paradoxical.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt power
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt age
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt possible
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt time
Truth is always a delusion.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt truth
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt reason
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt right
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt art
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.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt people
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt humanity
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.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt world
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 war
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.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt truth
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt murder
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt patriotism
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt business

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