Fatherland Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt Download Open image “A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fatherland Murder Ready States
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist… — Janne Teller Copy Share Image
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania, like every other state in our society, has to begin to adopt and refine the idea of mercy and redemption for our criminal… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them… — Friedrich Dürrenmatt Copy Share Image
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and,… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner Copy Share Image
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves… — Giuseppe Garibaldi Copy Share Image
