“Progress … has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.”

—  Karl Kraus

“In these great times,” Harry Zohn, trans., In These Great Times (Montreal: 1976), pp. 73-74

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Czech playwright and publicist 1874–1936

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