Karl Kraus Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

  Karl Kraus

  War, Lying, Believe

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  Karl Kraus

  Funny, War, Lying

  Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

• A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

  Karl Kraus

  Truth, Lying, White

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

  Karl Kraus

  Real, Lying, Atrocities

• How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

  Karl Kraus

  Powerful, Lying, Volcanoes

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.24, University of Illinois Press

• The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Hero, People

• Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Merit, Tools

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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