Friedrich Durrenmatt Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Friedrich Durrenmatt:

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Truth is always a delusion.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

We are the world.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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Power is paradoxical.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

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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.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

World history is tragic.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Justice is horrible.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt