“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.”

Max Frisch

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

Jean Antoine Petit Senn

“I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality… to protect myself.”

Alberto Giacometti

“Switzerland has already disappeared. The Switzerland you and I grew up in that is. But it emerges anew every day. More diverse. More world encompassing. More surprising. Play a part and delight in it!”

Franz Hohler

“The rail tracks are approaching Switzerland… Switzerland will be entirely circumvented… it will be left with no option but to present … the sad face of Europe’s forgotten backwater.”

Alfred Escher

“I wouldn’t change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don’t.”

Granit Xhaka

“The boat is full.”

Eduard von Steiger