Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus

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

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus

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

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Karl Kraus

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
Karl Kraus

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
Karl Kraus

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Karl Kraus

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

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

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
Karl Kraus

You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
Karl Kraus