Friedrich Durrenmatt

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Human life is beyond comprehension.”

“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.”

“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”

“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”

“So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.”

“There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 fo...”

“Power is paradoxical.”

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

“The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.”

“The savages don't have atom bombs.”

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