Quote #23
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
More from Karl Kraus
- Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
- Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
- Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
- I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.