Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmattwas a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophical crime novels, and macabre satire. Dürrenmatt was a member of the Gruppe Olten...
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literature truth-is delusion
Truth is always a delusion.
party thinking hymns
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.
birthday justice political
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.
dying eternity persons
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
world humane inhuman
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
prison-guards captivity would-be
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
weapons reap
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
humanity victim stills
Do we still have the right to be more than victims?
russia differences spy
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.
literature way piety
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
atoms savages bombs
The savages don't have atom bombs.
writing problem solve
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
birth-control hunger remedy
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
our-world tolerance hell
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.