Knows Quotes by Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

— Karl Kraus

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

— Karl Kraus

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,…

— Karl Kraus

They judge lest they be judged.

— Karl Kraus

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to…

— Karl Kraus

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

— Karl Kraus

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

— Karl Kraus

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

— Karl Kraus

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn…

— Karl Kraus

The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by.

— Karl Kraus

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

— Karl Kraus

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if…

— Karl Kraus

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one…

— Karl Kraus

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

— Karl Kraus