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Friedrich Durrenmatt
January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990
Nationality: Swiss
Category: Author
Subcategory: Swiss Author

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

    Topics: Age

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

   

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

   

We are the world.

    Topics: Short

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

   

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

   

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

   

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

   

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

   

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.

   

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