A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

The savages don't have atom bombs.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

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

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 Quote

Truth is always a delusion.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote