62+ Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes On Friendship, Education And Religion

Friedrich Durrenmatt was a Swiss author and playwright. He was best known for his plays, which often had a dark, existentialist tone. His most famous work is The Visit, a tragicomedy about a wealthy woman who returns to her hometown to exact revenge. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt on friendship, education, religion.

Top 10 Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

1. A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
2. Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand
3. Humor is the mask of wisdom.
4. Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
5. It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
6. That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
7. Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
8. There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them
9. Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
10. Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

Friedrich Durrenmatt Short Quotes

• It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
• It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended
• Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
• He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.
• We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
• Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
• The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
• It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim
• Do we still have the right to be more than victims?
• Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes About World

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

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

World history is tragic. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes. — 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

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Friedrich Durrenmatt Famous Quotes And Sayings

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity — Friedrich Durrenmatt

In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn. — 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

There are thoughts we must not think — Friedrich Durrenmatt

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course. — 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 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

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Power is paradoxical. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who sows fear, reaps weapons. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Life Lessons by Friedrich Durrenmatt

1. Friedrich Durrenmatt believed that life should be approached with a sense of responsibility, and that we should strive to make the world a better place.
2. He also taught that life is full of difficult choices and that we should be honest and open with ourselves and others.
3. Lastly, Durrenmatt suggested that we should never give up and that we should always strive to find meaning and purpose in our lives.