127 Quotes by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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

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.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

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

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

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

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

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

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.