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.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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

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

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

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.

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

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

The savages don't have atom bombs.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

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

We are the world.

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

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

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.