11 quotes found
"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."
"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."
"Who sows fear, reaps weapons."
"That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy."
"Freedom and justice are complementary concepts; freedom is no more feasible without justice than justice is possible without freedom."
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
"Rea: My country, above all. Romulus: You see, you've been reading too many tragedies lately. Rea: But shouldn't one love one's country more than anything else in the world? Romulus: No, one should never love it as one loves other human beings. In fact, the most important thing is to mistrust one's country. No one turns killer more easily than one's country."
"Romulus: It is much more difficult to be loyal to a human being than to remain loyal to a state. Rea: It's my country, not just a state. Romulus: Every state calls itself "country" or "nation" when it is about to commit murder. Rea: Our unconditional love for our country was what made Rome great. Romulus: But it did not make Rome good. We nurtured a beast with our virtues. We became drunk on the greatness of our country, but what we loved has now turned into gall and wormwood."
"Eine Geschichte ist dann zu Ende gedacht, wenn sie ihre schlimmstmögliche Wendung genommen hat."
"The worst possible turn cannot be predicted. It occurs by chance."
"What can be said as a generalization about Dürrenmatt's dramatic oeuvre is that, from a dramaturgical point of view, it defies any sort of facile pigeonholing. He himself firmly denies that he belongs to any particular school of dramatic composition: there are elements of the absurd, classical tragedy, and even realism in his works. He says in 1954 that he is not "an existentialist, a nihilist, expressionist or ironist," and had he been writing later on he might well have added "absurdist" to the list. For him the stage is not a place for the working out of theories but a place for experiment, for developing the poetry and essence of the theater."