Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden — Karl Kraus Censorship Copy Share Image
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus Fire Copy Share Image
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something… — Karl Kraus Ability Copy Share Image
If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's… — Karl Kraus Ifs 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
I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails. — Karl Kraus Decided 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
The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. — Karl Kraus Asphalt Copy Share Image
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty. — Karl Kraus Consciousness Copy Share Image
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus Adults Copy Share Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus Development 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 Depends Copy Share Image
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know. — Karl Kraus Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or… — Karl Kraus Atrocities 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 Fetish Copy Share Image
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Cigarette 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
Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“»Den Weltmarkt erobern«: Weil Händler so sprachen, mußten Krieger so handeln. Seitdem wird erobert, wenngleich nicht der Weltmarkt.” — Karl Kraus 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
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
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained… — Karl Kraus Causes Copy Share Image
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. — Karl Kraus Chastity Copy Share Image
