Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image ““The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.”” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The devil always appear as an angel of light to those who know no better.” — Fr. Jose Francisco C. Syquia Copy Share Image
“That’s the way people are: what they don’t understand is the work of the devil.” — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“It sometimes so happens that people who imagine that they are fighting the devil, whatever their particular notion of the devil may be, are… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
“Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
