It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular. — Karl Kraus Destruction Copy Share Image
Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. — Karl Kraus Justice 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 art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into… — Karl Kraus Able Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of… — Karl Kraus Agreement Copy Share Image
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he. — Karl Kraus Audience Copy Share Image
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
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. — Karl Kraus Boredom Copy Share Image
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to… — Karl Kraus Chimera Copy Share Image
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life. — Karl Kraus Beauty Copy Share Image
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. — Karl Kraus Deny Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. — Karl Kraus Birth Copy Share Image
I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after… — Karl Kraus Burning 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
When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe… — Karl Kraus Believe 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 write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do… — Karl Kraus Books Copy Share Image
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. — Karl Kraus Agreement Copy Share Image
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A… — Karl Kraus Erotic Copy Share Image
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands… — Karl Kraus Hands Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Borders 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
Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus Psychoanalysis Copy Share Image
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is… — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see… — Karl Kraus Apocalypse Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point… — Karl Kraus Aim 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
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
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts. — Karl Kraus Be proud Copy Share Image
We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume… — Karl Kraus Consumers Copy Share Image
The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free… — Karl Kraus Art Copy Share Image
To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal… — Karl Kraus Accounts Copy Share Image
“How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.” — Karl Kraus Lies Copy Share Image
A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a… — Karl Kraus Abbreviations Copy Share Image
