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Justiz Justiz by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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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.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 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.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, 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.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Justiz
“It would take all we could muster to reconcile our knowledge of Kohler’s guilt with our belief in Kohler’s guilt.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Justiz
“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.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Justiz
“He had killed in order to observe, murdered in order to examine, the laws upon which human society is based.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Justiz
“Мисленето е нихилистична дейност, поставя под въпрос всички ценности...”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Justiz