List of Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

I Am A Man, And God Is Hiding From Us Humans. We Are Unable To See Him, We Can Only Search For Him

Human Life Is Beyond Comprehension.

Prior To The Meeting, There Was A Prayer. In General, In The United States There Was Always Praying.

Do We Still Have The Right To Be More Than Victims?

World History Is Tragic.

A Reasonable Change Of The World Can Not Be Instrumented By Pure Reason.

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.

People Like Us Who Are On Their Last Leg Can Only Understand Comedies.

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.

Religion And Political Expediency Go Beautifully Hand In Hand

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.

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.

It Is Inhuman To Continue A War Which Could Easily Be Ended

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.

You Can't Take Back An Act You Were Able To Think.

A Story Has Been Thought To Its Conclusion When It Has Taken Its Worst Possible Turn.

Then The American Flag Was Saluted. In General, In The United States People Always Salute The American Flag.

A World Is In Flames, And You Are Cracking Silly Jokes.

Only The Freedom Of Mind Can Prevent The State From Becoming Totalitarian And From Issuing Totalitarian Demands.

When Death Has You By The Throat, You Don't Mince Words.

A Major Power Can Afford A Military Debacle Only When It Looks Like A Political Victory.

This Inhuman World Has To Become More Humane. But How?

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.

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.