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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden - Karl Kraus Quotes

Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner - Karl Kraus Quotes

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner

Devil

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist - Karl Kraus Quotes

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

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 Quotes

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.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. - Karl Kraus Quotes

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Austrian Writer Democracy

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. - Karl Kraus Quotes

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Austrian Writer Corruption

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid - Karl Kraus Quotes

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? - Karl Kraus Quotes

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Austrian Writer Children

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. - Karl Kraus Quotes

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Austrian Writer

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion. - Karl Kraus Quotes

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

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