Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the…

Quote by Karl Kraus

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

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

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe...

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe...

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

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

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

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

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

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

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

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom;...

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom;...

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

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...

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

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

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith...

Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith...