Explore more quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

"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."

Act, Communism, World

"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."

Thought, End

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."

Politics, Murder, State

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

Power, Victory, Military

"The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control."

Control, Birthcontrol, Hunger

"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."

Age, Truth, Freedom, Justice

"The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness."

Development, Consciousness, Evolution, Mind

"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."

Difference, Russia, States, Today

"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."

Politics, Communism, Myth, Party, Today

"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"

World,

Exlpore more Dying quotes

"Just dying should not be a reason for taxes."

Todd Akin, American Politician

Dying, Reason, Taxes

"This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Dying, End, Man, Sun

"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."

Woody Allen, American Director

Dying, Lying

"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Dying, Moon, Old, Will

"I am dying, Egypt, dying."

Marc Antony, Roman Politician

Dying,

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

John Berger, English Artist

Dying, Past

"Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."

Robert Burns, Scottish Poet

Dying, Opera

"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Dying,

"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Dying, Existence

"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Dying, Night, Road