The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. — Karl Kraus Framework Copy Share Image
Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus Age 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 Editorials Copy Share Image
“Everything that’s created remains as it was before it was created. The artist fetches it down from the heavens as a finished… — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink,… — Karl Kraus Age Copy Share Image
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the… — Karl Kraus Corruption Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like… — Karl Kraus Body Copy Share Image
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. — Karl Kraus Believe 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 Doe Copy Share Image
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. — Karl Kraus Crime 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
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Appetizers Copy Share Image
Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried. — Karl Kraus Animal Copy Share Image
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears. — Karl Kraus Dirty Copy Share Image
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves. — Karl Kraus Buddhism Copy Share Image
Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime. — Karl Kraus Behinds Copy Share Image
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. — Karl Kraus Decision Copy Share Image
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. — Karl Kraus Language 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 Age Copy Share Image
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put… — Karl Kraus Ideas Copy Share Image
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The… — Karl Kraus Doe Copy Share Image
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus Littles 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
