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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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 everybod…

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt