Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
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,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one… — Karl Kraus Copy Share
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. — Karl Kraus Copy Share
