Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back. One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. 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. People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. Power is paradoxical. Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. 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. Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. 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. The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity. The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
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