Karl Kraus
Writer
1874-04-28
Quotes by Karl Kraus
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
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The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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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.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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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.'
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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