Karl Kraus Quotes about Lying

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How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus

War, Lying, Believe

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

Karl Kraus

Truth, Lying, White

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Karl Kraus

Funny, War, Lying

Aphorism collected in Heinrich Fischer (ed) Beim Wort genommen (1955). Translated by Harry Zohn in Half-truths and one-and-a-half truths (1986).

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.

Karl Kraus

Lying, Hero, People

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

Karl Kraus

Lying, Imagination, Journalism

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Karl Kraus

Lying, Merit, Tools

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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.

Karl Kraus

Real, Lying, Atrocities