Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Swiss - Author | January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

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WorldBecomeMoreHowInhuman

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

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AnimalsWildDifferencePrayCommit

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

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HopeWorldYouLookBadHopeless

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

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RightIndividualExistentialDissent

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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AgeTruthFreedomJusticePresent

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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ControlBirthHungerAgainstRemedy

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

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SocietyWrongWayEffectWrong Way

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

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DeathWordsYouThroatMince

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

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GoodArtGood ThingsSaidHuman

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

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StoryWorstTurnFinishedUntil

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

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FireWorldLostSetWhichDoes

There are thoughts we must not think.

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ThoughtsThinkMust

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