Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink,… — 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
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
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. — 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
