Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Looks, Viewpoints, Literature

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• Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

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  Taken, Literature, Has Beens

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• Humor is the mask of wisdom.

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  Funny, Wisdom, Humor

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

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  Animal, Differences, Literature

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

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  Murder, States, Ready

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• Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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  Literature, Weapons, Reap

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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• Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

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  Betrayal, Rome, Betrayed

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

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  Doe, Literature, Mourn

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• A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

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  Writing, Problem, Solve

  "Blogging in the classroom: why your students should write online" by Michael Drennan, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2012.

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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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  News, Literature, World

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• It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

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  Criminal Mind, Murder, Sincere

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

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  Humanity, Problem

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

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  Birthday, Stupid, Dumb

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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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  Inspirational, Art, Fear

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• Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

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  Emotion

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• 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.

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  Strong, Reality, Research

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• The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

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  Power, World, Want

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• In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

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  Running, Country, Schedules

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• Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

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  War, Blood, History

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• There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

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  Humanity, Risk, Literature

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• Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

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  Our World, Tolerance, Hell

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• The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

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  Men, Physics, Physicist

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

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  Uprising, Justice, Doe

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• 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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  Art, Literature, Cuisine

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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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  Murderer, Fatherland, Suspicious

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