"The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt."
"Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it."
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Source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
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