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Friedrich Durrenmatt [1921-1990] Swiss

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II.

Art, Death, Fear, Hope, Patriotism, Power, Truth

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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.	Art, Fear	101
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.		102
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.	Art	103
Truth is always a delusion.	Truth	104
Human life is beyond comprehension.		105
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.		106
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.		107
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.		108
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.		109
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.	Death	110
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.	Hope	111
World history is tragic.		112
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.		113
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.		114
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.		115
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.		116
Power is paradoxical.	Power	117
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.		118
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.		119
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.		120
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.		121
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.		122
Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.		123
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.		124
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.		125
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?		126
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.		201
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.		202
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.		203
There are thoughts we must not think.		204
Justice is horrible.		205
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.		206
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.		207
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.		208
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.	Patriotism	209
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.		210
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.		211
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.		212
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.		213
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.		214
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.		215
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.		216
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.		217
You can't take back an act you were able to think.		218
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.		219
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.		220
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.		221
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.		222
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.		223
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.		224
The savages don't have atom bombs.		225
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.		226
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.		301
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.		302
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.		303
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.		304
We are the world.		305
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.		306

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