7 Quotes by Karl Kraus about lying
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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.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.
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How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
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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.
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Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.
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How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.
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