A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.
--Max Frisch
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
--Max Frisch
Cause and effect are never divided between two people.
--Max Frisch
Does not everyone who describes something he has experienced believe basically that whatever happens to him has some sort of relevance?
--Max Frisch
Everything that is human looks like a special case.
--Max Frisch
How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person?
--Max Frisch
How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.
--Max Frisch
I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.
--Max Frisch
It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple.
--Max Frisch
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
--Max Frisch
One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive.
--Max Frisch
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
--Max Frisch
Technology (is) the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
--Max Frisch
The older you get the simpler you want to make it.
--Max Frisch
Time does not change us it just unfolds us.
--Max Frisch
To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us.
--Max Frisch
Uniforms ruin every character.
--Max Frisch
You can lose a woman when you have won her.
--Max Frisch
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely.
--Max Frisch
Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon.
--Max Frisch
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