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Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this ‘tolerance’ any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.”

51. “There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this ‘tolerance’ any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.”

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

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “World history is tragic.”

53. “World history is tragic.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”

54. “It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim.”

55. “It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “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.”

56. “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.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.”

57. “There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “You can’t take back an act you were able to think.”

58. “You can’t take back an act you were able to think.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.”

59. “It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.”

60. “I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.”

61. “Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “There are thoughts we must not think.”

62. “There are thoughts we must not think.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”

63. “Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.”

64. “For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.”

65. “A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.”

66. “One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.”

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

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”

68. “In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “For a person who is dying only eternity counts.”

69. “For a person who is dying only eternity counts.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”

71. “We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”

72. “In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “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.”

73. “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.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn’t derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call – not without a little embarrassment – faith.”

74. “To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn’t derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call – not without a little embarrassment – faith.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.”

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

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”

76. “A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”

77. “It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

78. “Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.”

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

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Do we still have the right to be more than victims?”

80. “Do we still have the right to be more than victims?”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.”

81. “Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quote: “Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”

82. “Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.”

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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