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> [We asked for workers. We got people instead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/we-asked-for-workers-we-got-people-instead/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

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## More by Max Frisch

> [The dignity of man is in free choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/the-dignity-of-man-is-in-free-choice/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [“-only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/only-human-beings-can-recognize-catastrophes-provided-they-survive/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/we-live-technologically-with-man-as-the-master-of-nature-man-as-the/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [We asked for workers. We got people instead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/we-asked-for-workers-we-got-people-instead/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/technology-is-the-knack-of-so-arranging-the-world-that-we-don-t-have/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/technology-is-a-way-of-organizing-the-universe-so-that-man-doesn-t/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [I have no words for my reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/i-have-no-words-for-my-reality/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [Why do dying people never shed tears?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/why-do-dying-people-never-shed-tears/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/our-guilt-has-its-uses-it-justifies-much-in-the-lives-of-others/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/there-is-no-such-thing-as-far-as-i-m-concerned-as-ownership-in-love/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/thou-shalt-not-it-is-said-make-unto-thee-any-graven-image-of-god-the/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/a-society-needs-famous-people-the-question-is-whom-it-chooses-for/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/i-know-that-i-m-the-happiest-of-lovers/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/a-joke-is-a-good-camouflage-next-best-comes-sentiment-but-the-best/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

> [I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-frisch/i-took-the-standpoint-that-the-profession-of-technologist-a-man-who/)

[Max Frisch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-frisch/)

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