Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. — Karl Kraus 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
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus 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 Copy Share Image
It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now… — Karl Kraus 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 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 Copy Share Image
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus 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 'After all,… — 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 wants to… — Karl Kraus 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 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 never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus 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 Copy Share Image
