Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmattwas 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...
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weapons reap
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
world tragic world-history
World history is tragic.
concern
What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.
change world reason
A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
faith fear our-world
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
people history luck
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
art work reality
Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
hate thinking racism
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.
power world want
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.
mind becoming demand
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
murderer fatherland suspicious
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
behavior civilized ifs
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
russia differences spy
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.
murder states ready
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.