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Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden
Karl Kraus
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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
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Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.
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Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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The agitator seizes the word. The artist is seized by it.
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One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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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.
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You don't even live once.
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In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
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To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.
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