Quote #26
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
More from Karl Kraus
- Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
- I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
- Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
- I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
- Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
- 'It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.'
- Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.