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" Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. "
Karl Kraus
Human Nature
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" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
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" The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span. "
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" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "
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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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" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
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" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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" Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. "
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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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" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "
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" Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
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" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
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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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" A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. "
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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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" Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. "
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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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" I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am. "
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" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
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" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
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" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
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" 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. "
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" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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" 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. "
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" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
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