It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
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Friedrich Durrenmatt
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About Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire. Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten, a group of left-wing Swiss writers who convened regularly at a restaurant in the city of Olten.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Friedrich DurrenmattBefore 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, …
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
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.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Power is paradoxical.
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.
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
World history is tragic.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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, …
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
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.
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.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
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, …