Friedrich Dürrenmatt Quotes

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

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The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn.

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

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That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

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Truth is such a difficult problem that most people don't see any problem in it at all.

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

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My mission is to devote myself to the problems of gravitation, not the physical requirements of a woman.

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I simply can't stand disorder. Really it was my love of order that made me become a physicist...

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In the realm of science there is nothing more repugnant than a miracle.

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It's ludicrous. Here we have hordes of highly paid physicists in gigantic state-supported laboratories working for years and years and years vainly trying to make some progress in the realm of physics, while you do it quite casually at your desk in this madhouse.

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Dear Mobius. You have visitors. Now leave your physicist's lair for a moment and come in here.

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Our researches are perilous, our discoveries are lethal. For us physicists there is nothing left but to surrender to reality.

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