Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
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Power is paradoxical.
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Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
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The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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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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This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
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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.
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Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
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The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
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A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
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The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
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We are the world.
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When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
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News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
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Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.