How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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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.Karl Kraus
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus
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