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Letter "K" » Karl Kraus Quotes
«Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aphorisms, essay, Essays, fritter, fritters, fritter away
«Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
activate, activated, activates, celebrates, Flying machine, mail, ooze, oozed, oozes, oozing, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, purses, salesmen, traveling salesman
«Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.»
«How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.»
«Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
divides, Loafer, loafers, no Time, provision, workers
«No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
journalist
«Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave»
«When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'»
«Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Christianity,
Morality
| Keywords:
precede, prefers, remorse
«Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.»
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