Best Karl Kraus Quotations
- Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Attack
- Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. Families
- Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. Earthquake
- Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time… Ability
- Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Aside
- I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Affair
- Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. Deflower
- Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. Boredom
- Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Christian
- To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. All
- Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. Democracy
- If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. Imagination
- My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. Conscience
- A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. Child
- A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. Answer
- No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. Ability
- Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. Democracy
- A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. Beautiful
- Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? Army
- It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. Ability
- Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. Illness
- Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. Begins
- A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! Desire
- An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. Birth
- Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. Abortion
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