Quote #21
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
More from Karl Kraus
- Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
- Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
- Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
- Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
- Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
- An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time.
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.