Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Birth : January 5, 1921

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

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

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There are thoughts we must not think.

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Justice is horrible.

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World history is tragic.

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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.

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

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Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

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A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

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Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

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