"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are."

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Source : "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.

Karl Kraus

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Devil Quotes

“The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“But as a result of that, there was, once the show ended, there was this talk for sort of four, five months about what was going to happen, and if we were going to move to Showtime, and if we were going to be bought by ABC or whatever.”
“The people are living seperately together," he said. "So there is responsibility. I cry, you cry. You cry, I cry. We all come running, and the one that stays quiet, the one that stays home, must explain. Is he in league with the criminals? Is he a coward? And what would he expect when he cries? This is simple. This is normal. This is community.”

Source : Philip Gourevitch (1999). “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda”, p.34, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.”
“If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.”
“There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.”
“Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.”

Source : Song: The Boys of Summer, Album: Building the Perfect Beast
“Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.”

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