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Karl Kraus Quotes


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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.'

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