Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

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

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.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

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.

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

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

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.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.