Friedrich Dürrenmatt

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt