You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Action 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 Backwards 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
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
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. — Karl Kraus Hate 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
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
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Inspirational 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
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
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
Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former. — Karl Kraus Chatting Copy Share Image
Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly… — Karl Kraus Dream Copy Share Image
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. — Karl Kraus Mean 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
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks. — Karl Kraus Mean 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
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus Atheism 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
