Quote #42
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
More from Karl Kraus
- The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.
- The real truths are those that can be invented.
- Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
- The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
- Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
- The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspect…
- Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden.
- To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.