A biography for Friedrich Durrenmatthasn’t been written yet.
“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”
“The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.”
“Justice is horrible.”
“A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.”
“People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.”
“Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.”
“A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.”
“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.”
“The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.”
“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.”
“The savages don't have atom bombs.”
“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.”
“Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.”
“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.”
“The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.”
“News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.”
“Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.”
“There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.”