A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — 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
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. — 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
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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 Image
