Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Birth : January 5, 1921

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

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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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It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

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We are the world.

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Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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You can't take back an act you were able to think.

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I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

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People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

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

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Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

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Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

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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.

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

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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

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