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The Secret Of The Demagogue Is To Make Himself As Stupid As His Audience So That They Believe They Are As Clever As He.
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The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his
audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.
-- Karl Kraus
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazli...
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? -- Karl Krau
How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, and they believe what they read.
-- Karl Kraus, "Aphorisms and More Aphorism...
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure. Karl Krau
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious.
Make the subleties obvious also. -- Billy Wilde...
What the hell are you getting so upset about? I thought you didn't believe in God".
"I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears, "but the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God....
The art of giving advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.
-- Frank Tyge...
To be too clever is to be stupid.
There is no idea so stupid that some professor doesn't believe in it.