Quotations From FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

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• 21.

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

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). An Angel Comes to Babylon, act I (1954).
• 22.

  The savages don't have atom bombs.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).
• 23.

  World history is tragic.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).
  
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• 24.

  Power is paradoxical.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).
  
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• 25.

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

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).
  
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• 26.

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

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act I (1956).
• 27.

  Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist, and trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956). On war.
• 28.

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

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956). On the Roman Empire.
  
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• 29.

  The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971).
  
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• 30.

  There are thoughts we must not think.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Portrait of a Planet (1971). Regarding the nuclear annihilation of humanity.