The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man