Karl Kraus Quotes
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
-
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
-
I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
-
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
-
Writers should provoke disagreement.
-
The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
-
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
-
The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
-
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
-
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
-
There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
-
Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
-
If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
-
There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
-
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
-
All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
-
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
-
I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
-
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
-
I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.
-
There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut
-
I never went through a period were I wanted to be a doctor, a cop or even a rock star. All I wanted to do was play short stop for the Yankees from the time I was about 5. Then I turned 15 and realized how silly that was and just gave up on it.
-
I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.
-
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
