Friedrich Durrenmatt quotes

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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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Hope
World
The savages don't have atom bombs.
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Bombs
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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Dissent
Right
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
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Humanity
Problems
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
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Art
Fear
Right
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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Age
Dumb
Old
There are thoughts we must not think.
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Thoughts
Power is paradoxical.
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Power
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Act
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
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Change
Time
World
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
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Religion
Expediency
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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Art
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
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Animals
Difference
Murder
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom
Truth is always a delusion.
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Truth
Delusion