Human Drive Quotes by Karl Kraus

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Karl Kraus has 141 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When I want to go to sleep, I must first get a whole menagerie of voices to shut up. You wouldn't believe…
• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
• Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
• Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
• A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.
• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose…
• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
• A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
• He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
• Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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