Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail … - Karl Kraus

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Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad. . . but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Karl Kraus

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

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If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

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