Quote #34
No ideas and the ability to express them- that's a journalist.
More from Karl Kraus
- Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose …
- Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
- Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
- Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone: . He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
- Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor that just wanted to see what it was like in there.
- Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden.