Karl Kraus was a famous Writer from Austria, who lived between April 28, 1874 and June 12, 1936. He/she became 62 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 46 quotes who is written / told by Karl, under the main topic Experience.
46 Famous quotes by Karl Kraus
"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it"
"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess"
"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life"
"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work"
"Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions"
"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer"
"A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful"
"Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower"
"Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world"
"I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him 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"
"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span"
"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world"
"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print"
"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram"
"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"
"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"
"A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!"
"Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis"
"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves"
"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots"
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave"
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country"
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant"
"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back"
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear"
"Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor"
"I don't like to meddle in my private affairs"
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants"
"The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test"
"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match"
"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom"
"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean"
"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies"
"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent"
"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust"
"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid"
"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"
"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am"
"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow"
"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself"
"Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays"
"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy"
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write"
"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new"
"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up"
