Karl Kraus Quotes

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

No one is a good judge in his own cause.

Do not hear one and judge two.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

I wouldn’t say she is open-minded about her views of the Middle East so much as empty headed.

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

I feel like people are so closed-minded at times.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.