Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

We are what make up society.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

The fallacies of the new egalitarianism come largely from having ripped the notion of equality loose from its context. The result is to turn it into a principle vagrant and homeless, and identifiable in fact only if a quasi-theological context is unconsciously imported.

Protestant Christianity ... tutored the first generations of Americans. It provided what we today would call the value system of the society.

Society is one word, but many things.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

…an enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind…

Science of Society

everyone who was able built a castle; so that the poor people were worn out with the toil of these buildings, and the whole kingdom was covered with castles.

It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.

… the happiness of the people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality …. These cannot be diffused through a community but by the institution of the public worship of God …and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality.