"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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Karl Kraus quotes (page 12 of 14)
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"Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him."
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"It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas."
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"When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that."
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"A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine."
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"A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time"
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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 it."
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"What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?"
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"Imagination has the right to feast in the shade of the tree that it turns into a forest."
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"Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears."
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"Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink."
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"I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating."
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"That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there--and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors."
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"When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting."
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"Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received."
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"I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak."
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"An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord."
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"Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood."
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"If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me."
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"Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged."
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