Friedrich Durrenmatt

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

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.

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

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.

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

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity

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

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

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