Quotes By Karl Kraus
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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
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
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Karl Kraus
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
Karl Kraus
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
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
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
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
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus