Krippendorff Quotes & Sayings

The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists — Jostein Gaarder

It's one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it's the worst when friends become strangers, — Hayley Williams

Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness. — Sherrie Krantz

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. — Klaus Krippendorff

We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace. — George W. Bush

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate
and sit upon a bench. — O. Henry

Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as "name-calling", employing "glittering generalities", "plain folks" identifications, "card stacking", "bandwagon" devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many religious and political speeches, even in academic lectures, and this approach to propaganda analysis led to a kind of witch-hunt for propagandists. — Klaus H. Krippendorff