Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes about Literature

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

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

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

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

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Truth is always a delusion.

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

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

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