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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose...

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity...

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity...

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer...

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer...

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100,...

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100,...