Karl Kraus Quotes

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus

Corruption, Country, Might

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
Karl Kraus

Jealousy, Dog, Thieves

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Karl Kraus

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus

Education, Wise, Idiots

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus

Whole, Sexuality, Families

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
Karl Kraus

Stupidity, Force, Earthquake

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus

Christian, Lust, Morality

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Karl Kraus

Virginity, Ideal

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus

Life, Truth, Lies

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus

Boredom, Morality, Stage

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

Experience, Wisdom, Cannot

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
Karl Kraus

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

Beautiful, Woman, Cannot

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Karl Kraus

Someone, Writer, Answer

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Karl Kraus

Children, Play, Why

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus

Democracy, Everyone, Means

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Karl Kraus

Private, Affairs, Meddle

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 he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus

Time, Person, Ideas

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Karl Kraus

Illness, Mental, Therapy

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus

Put, Stop, Police

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus

Men, Same, Equal

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

Short, Child, Pants

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Karl Kraus

Heart, Woman, Desire

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus

Feeling, Idea, Birth

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
Karl Kraus

Purpose, Means, Culture

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Writer

Born: April 28, 1874

Died: June 12, 1936

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