Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

• News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  News, Literature, World

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Art, Literature, Cuisine

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Fire, Doe, Literature

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Humanity, Risk, Literature

• 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.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Birthday, Justice, Political

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Animal, Differences, Literature

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Way, Piety

• 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.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, World, Communism

• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Patriotism, Literature, Behavior

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

• Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Cost, Literature, Resistance

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

• The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Coincidence, Worst

• Truth is always a delusion.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Truth Is, Delusion

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Uprising, Justice, Doe

• 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.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Russia, Differences, Spy

• The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  America, Literature, Individual

• 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.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Matter, Easy

• 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.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Thinking, Order

  "The Limits of State Power in Africa: A Case Srudy of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Book by Georges/Sembe Bakaly (p. 14), 2006.

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Doe, Literature, Mourn

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Throat

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, World, Humane

• Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Hands, Political, Literature

• Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Weapons, Reap

  "About Tolerance" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 1977.

• Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Taken, Literature, Has Beens

• It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  War, Literature, Inhuman

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