Quotes By Karl Kraus
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
Karl Kraus
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
Karl Kraus
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
Karl Kraus
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Karl Kraus
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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