Quotes By Karl Kraus
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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
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