Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Birth : January 5, 1921

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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Truth is always a delusion.

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Power is paradoxical.

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

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

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

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Human life is beyond comprehension.

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

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Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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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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For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

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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.

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

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The savages don't have atom bombs.

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

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It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

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

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