Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Topics: Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the...

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the...

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

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

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

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

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened...

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened...

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change...

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change...

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

We are the world.

We are the world.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing...

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing...

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their...

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their...

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

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...

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which...

Justice is horrible.

Justice is horrible.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the...

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the...

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with...

The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with...

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen...

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen...