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«Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
criminal justice, straitjacket
«He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
adherent, adherents, The Crowd
«Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
bolts, mourns, nuts, nuts and bolts, subordinated, subsistence
«A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.»
«Female personality is insubstantiality ennobled by unconsciousness.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ennobled, insubstantiality, unconsciousness
«Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.»
«Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
miser, wastrel
«You don't even live once»
«News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clich?s walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.»
«One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aphorism, aphorisms, dictate, typist
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