Friedrich Durrenmatt

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Justice is horrible.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.