How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Believe Copy Share Image
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. — Karl Kraus Atheism Copy Share Image
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. — Karl Kraus Popular Copy Share Image
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman. — Karl Kraus Character Copy Share Image
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus Cancer Copy Share Image
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor. — Karl Kraus Love Copy Share Image
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.” — Karl Kraus Devil Copy Share Image
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just… — Karl Kraus Altruism Copy Share Image
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. — Karl Kraus Faith Copy Share Image
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it. — Karl Kraus Arise 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. — Karl Kraus Experience Copy Share Image
Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of… — Karl Kraus Bestiality Copy Share Image
“There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself… — Karl Kraus Boot 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
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 triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by… — Karl Kraus Bedroom 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
A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent… — Karl Kraus Able Copy Share Image
Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? — Karl Kraus Children Copy Share Image
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
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. — Karl Kraus Education Copy Share Image
Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks. — Karl Kraus Mean Copy Share Image
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. — Karl Kraus Journalists Copy Share Image
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus Beggar Copy Share Image
Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable. — Karl Kraus Advice Copy Share Image
Who is going to cast out an error to which he has given birth and replace it with an adopted truth? — Karl Kraus Adopted Copy Share Image
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it. — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. — Karl Kraus Compulsion Copy Share Image
Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning. — Karl Kraus Events Copy Share Image
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears. — Karl Kraus Dirty Copy Share Image
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so. — Karl Kraus Flight Copy Share Image
“A weak man has doubts before a decision, a stong man has them afterwards.” — Karl Kraus Decision making Copy Share Image
When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting. — Karl Kraus Acting Copy Share Image
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long. — Karl Kraus Aphorism Copy Share Image
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. — Karl Kraus Child Copy Share Image
