Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Power is paradoxical.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

We are the world.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Justice is horrible.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

World history is tragic.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Truth is always a delusion.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are thoughts we must not think

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Every word mattered to them. Because Matthäi was taking them seriously, they took him seriously too.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to…

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt