Karl Kraus Quotes
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Kraus, Karl. Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms. Translated by Harry Zohn, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Modern science with its mathematical structures allows more and more predictions of the world and in some ways is like seeing into the future.
The issue under discussion was the fact that the United States Military does not, unlike all civilian courts, maintain a docket of court martials. An interested citizen or a reporter, who usually has a right to attend and observe the proceeding has no way of finding out where and when the proceeding will take place unless the military chooses to inform people or make it public. Courts Martial are legally open to observers except for special circumstances—like civilian criminal trials. However, the military wants as little coverage as possible.
He had followed a guest speaker—a history professor—who was giving the staff a lecture on the history of the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) program of the New Deal which had some similar aspects to the Job Corps, like residential living and work projects. However, the major purpose and justification of the CCC was totally different.
Karl Kraus was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
