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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 Dürrenmatt
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 Dürrenmatt
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 Dürrenmatt
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 Dürrenmatt
Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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 Dürrenmatt
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