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You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor. ↗

— Alfredo Kraus

#choice #decide #make #music #popular

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#country #endanger #endangers #entire #entire country

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#crutch #education #foolish #idiots #prove

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#called #disease #morality #primary #secondary

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#those #virginity #want #who

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#equal #everywhere #i #me #men

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#discard #grown-up #his #ideals #learns

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#behind #civilization #culture #disappear #existence

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#divides #into #makes #people #provision

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#few #many #most #pass #possess