Karl Kraus - People Quotes

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If I return some people's greetings, I do so only to give them their greeting back.

Karl Kraus
There is no doubt that a dog is loyal. But does that mean we should emulate him? After all, he is loyal to people, not to other dogs.

Karl Kraus
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.

Karl Kraus
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Karl Kraus
Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.

Karl Kraus
Education is what most people receive, many pass on, and few have.

Karl Kraus
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Karl Kraus
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Karl Kraus
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

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It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Karl Kraus
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Karl Kraus
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Karl Kraus
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

Karl Kraus
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

Karl Kraus
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

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Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage to live with people; everything goes like clockwork and no irksome misunderstanding can arise.

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