Quotations From FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

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• 91.

  Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Czechoslovakia 1968 (1968).
• 92.

  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.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Czechoslovakia 1968 (1968).
  
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• 93.

  The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Czechoslovakia 1968 (1968).
  
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• 94.

  Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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