127 Quotes by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

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 archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

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

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.

Truth is always a delusion.