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 brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
Karl KrausMankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.
Karl KrausA school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
Karl KrausIt is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
Karl Kraus