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“Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.” quote by Karl Kraus — Download Open image

“Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.”

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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

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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,…

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They judge lest they be judged.

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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…

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Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

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One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

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Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn…

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The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

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The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

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Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

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