Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. — Karl Kraus Advice Copy Share Image
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Journalists Copy Share Image
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.” — Karl Kraus Devil Copy Share Image
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. — Karl Kraus Love Copy Share Image
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus Audience Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will… — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. — Karl Kraus Justice Copy Share Image
It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular. — Karl Kraus Destruction Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Age Copy Share Image
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus Clarity Copy Share Image
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the… — Karl Kraus Corruption Copy Share Image
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus Cancer Copy Share Image
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus Atheism Copy Share Image
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus Cleans Copy Share Image
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned. — Karl Kraus Blushing Copy Share Image
When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that. — Karl Kraus Destiny Copy Share Image
The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Goals Copy Share Image
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus Bacchus Copy Share Image
How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another. — Karl Kraus Being faithful Copy Share Image
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it… — Karl Kraus Learning Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of… — Karl Kraus Bestiality Copy Share Image
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus Experience Copy Share Image
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any… — Karl Kraus Beautiful Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
