To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus Contempt Copy Share Image
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks. — Karl Kraus Mean Copy Share Image
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.” — Karl Kraus Devil Copy Share Image
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus Atheism Copy Share Image
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one. — Karl Kraus Women Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Action Copy Share Image
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with… — Karl Kraus Bloody Copy Share Image
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations… — Karl Kraus Annoyance Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Benches Copy Share Image
So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation. — Karl Kraus Causes 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 Forewarned Copy Share Image
A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold. — Karl Kraus Assurance Copy Share Image
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle… — Karl Kraus Sun Copy Share Image
I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use… — Karl Kraus Day and night Copy Share Image
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might… — Karl Kraus Able 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 Abandoned 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
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
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. — Karl Kraus Breasts Copy Share Image
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. — Karl Kraus Better Copy Share Image
