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Karl Kraus Quotes

Austrian - Writer | April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936

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

Children Play Why Soldiers Soldier

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

Work Time People Democracy Workers

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Life Truth Imagination Reporter Lies

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Time Ideas Person Skill More Whose

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

Nature Justice Human Nature Will

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Culture Purpose Civilization Behind

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Opportunity Democracy Everyone Slave

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Style Loss New Old Ability Idealism

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Mother Thought Language

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Life Learn You More Need Through

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

World Lifestyle Test Sound Order

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Look Back Looks Distance Greater

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