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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• 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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• Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

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  Taken, Literature, Has Beens

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

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  Humanity, Problem

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

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  Birthday, Stupid, Dumb

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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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• Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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  Literature, Weapons, Reap

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Russia, Differences, Spy

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

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  Doe, Literature, Mourn

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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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• 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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• Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

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  Our World, Tolerance, Hell

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• He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

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  Reality, Paradoxical

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• There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

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  Reality, Moments, Left Behind

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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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