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" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
Karl Kraus
Work
Time
People
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" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
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" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
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" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "
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" Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. "
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" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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Fire
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" My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. "
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Than
Unconscious
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" Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. "
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" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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Me
More
" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
Karl Kraus
Opportunity
Slave
Everyone
" The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. "
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Test
Principle
Lifestyle
" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
Karl Kraus
Scandal
Begins
Police
" Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. "
Karl Kraus
Should
Someone
Time
" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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Does
Than
Means
" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "
Karl Kraus
Experience
Inheritance
Savings
" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
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Same
Men
Equal
" How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. "
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See
Lie
World
" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
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Catching
Feeling
Idea
" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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Earthquake
Stupidity
Match
" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
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Never
Anything
Him
" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
Karl Kraus
Affairs
Private
Meddle
" It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. "
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Old
New
Style
" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
Karl Kraus
Through
Learn
Life
" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "
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Sex
Children
Education
" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
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Him
Terrible
Walk
" Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. "
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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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Illness
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
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