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...
Friedrich Durrenmatt quotes about
heaven redemption world
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
our-world tolerance hell
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
world humane inhuman
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
uprising justice world
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
world communism structure
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.
world tragic world-history
World history is tragic.
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.
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.
fire doe world
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost
sacrifice world demand
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
literature world facts
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
viewpoints literature world
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
possible swiss-author taken worst
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.