Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes - Page 3

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Cost, Literature, Resistance

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act III, 1956.

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• Power is paradoxical.

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  Power, Paradoxical

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• A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

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  Military, Political, Victory

  "Portrait of a Planet" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, 1971.

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• What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Concern

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

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  Literature, Throat

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• Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

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  Mind, Demand, Becoming

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

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  Running, Country, Schedules

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• 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.

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  Literature, Matter, Easy

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

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  War, Silly, Flames

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• Truth is always a delusion.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Literature, Truth Is, Delusion

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  People, Patriotism, United States

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• 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.

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  Russia, Differences, Spy

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• 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.

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  Power, World, Want

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Taken, Writing, Stories

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

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  People, Literature, Legs

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• 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.

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  Freedom, Justice, Grace

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• Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Humanity, Victim, Stills

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

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  Prayer, United States, Praying

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• 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.

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  War, Mind, Development

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• 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.

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  Party, Thinking, Hymns

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• World history is tragic.

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  World, Tragic, World History

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• Human life is beyond comprehension.

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  Life, Inspire, Comprehension

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• You can't take back an act you were able to think.

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  Thinking, Able

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• 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.

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  Technology, People, Earth

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• Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Hands, Political, Literature

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