Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged. — Karl Kraus Feelings Copy Share Image
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. — Karl Kraus Behinds Copy Share Image
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. — Karl Kraus Alcoholics Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Enough Copy Share Image
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. — Karl Kraus Abortion Copy Share Image
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most… — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work. — Karl Kraus Intercourse Copy Share Image
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a… — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they… — Karl Kraus Asks Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Aversion Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says… — Karl Kraus Beast Copy Share Image
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year. — Karl Kraus Cleaning Copy Share Image
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. — Karl Kraus Democracy Copy Share Image
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or… — Karl Kraus Atrocities Copy Share Image
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another… — Karl Kraus Coats Copy Share Image
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse… — Karl Kraus Expectations Copy Share Image
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it… — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage… — Karl Kraus Arise Copy Share Image
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot… — Karl Kraus Able Copy Share Image
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day… — Karl Kraus Achievement Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Actors Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Age Copy Share Image
In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left… — Karl Kraus Great saying by great authors Copy Share Image
