Famous Quotes / Karl Kraus
69 Quotations by Karl Kraus
- 21. How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe wh ...
- 22. How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they ...
- 23. I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what i ...
- 24. If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- 25. In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
- 26. In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided ...
- 27. Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot ...
- 28. It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape ...
- 29. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is ...
- 30. Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is ...
- 31. Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
- 32. Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- 33. Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
- 34. Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
- 35. Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; it ...
- 36. My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows a ...
- 37. News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Cliches walk around on two legs ...
- 38. One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs ...
- 39. Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were ...
- 40. Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper pla ...