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" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
Karl Kraus
Same
Men
Equal
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" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
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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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" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
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" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
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" Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. "
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" Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? "
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" I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. "
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" 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. "
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" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "
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" The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. "
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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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Unconscious
More
" I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. "
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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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" Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. "
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Which
" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "
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Children
Education
" The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. "
Karl Kraus
Look
Back
Distance
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
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Language
Mother
Thought
" 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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Skill
Time
" Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. "
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Someone
Time
" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
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Time
People
" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
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Woman
Heart
" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
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Action
" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
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Something
Nothing
" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
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Masculine
Passion
" The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. "
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Shells
Fire
Trouble
" Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match. "
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Stupidity
Match
" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
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Means
" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
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" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
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