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All Quotes by author - Karl Kraus

" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "

" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "

" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "

" A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. "

" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "

" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "

" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "

" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "

" 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. "

" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "

" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "

" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "

" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "

" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "

" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "

" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "

" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "

" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "

" How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. "

" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "

" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "

" If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. "

" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "

" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "

" It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. "

" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "

" 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. "

" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "

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