3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt 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, justice, freedom and reason.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt 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.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt 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.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt 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.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
