127 Quotes by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age.

It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim.

The savages don’t have atom bombs.

There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this ‘tolerance’ any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.

The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology’s potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

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

News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.