Justiz Quotes
Justiz
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt1,899 ratings, 3.59 average rating, 161 reviews
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“Appartenere a una grande potenza - e per un cittadino del Liechtenstein quasi tutti gli altri Stati non potevano che essere grandi potenze, inclusa persino la Svizzera - causava alle persone in questione un notevole svantaggio psicologico, e cioè il pericolo di cader vittima di una certa ottusità nei rapporti con gli altri. Questo pericolo aumentava a seconda della grandezza di una nazione. Schönbächler soleva spiegare questo concetto con l'esempio dei topi: un topo che si ritrova solo si considera ancora soltanto un topo, ma non appena si ritrova insieme a milioni di topi si considera un gatto, e quando si unisce a cento milioni di topi un elefante. Ma i più pericolosi di tutti sono senz'altro i popoli di topi da cinquanta milioni (cinquanta milioni come ordine di grandezza). Questi sarebbero formati da topi che, per quanto si ritengano gatti, aspirano a essere elefanti. Tale eccesso di megalomania è pericoloso non soltanto per i topi in questione, ma anche per l'intero mondo di topi.”
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― Justiz
“Politics and business were governed by the same laws, the laws of power. That applied to war as well. In particular, business was a continuation of war by other means.”
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― Justiz
“Thus I was placed into the world without being able to see through it—because I had never come to grips with it, because I imagined it was governed by the rules of the orphanage in which I grew up. Quite unprepared, was cast into the system in which humans prey upon one another; quite unprepared, I saw myself confronted by the instincts that form them, greed, hate, fear, cunning, the thirst for power, but I was equally helpless when subjected to the feelings that make that predatory system humane: dignity, moderation, reason, and, ultimately, love.”
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― Justiz
“It would take all we could muster to reconcile our knowledge of Kohler’s guilt with our belief in Kohler’s guilt.”
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“Everything had to turn a profit and turn one it did, even the boundless heaps of stone and gravel-slides, the glacier tips and precipices. For once nature had been discovered and every idiot could feel sublime in mountain solitude, the tourist industry became possible.”
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― Justiz
“He had killed in order to observe, murdered in order to examine, the laws upon which human society is based.”
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