Karl Kraus Quotes & Quotations

Karl Kraus Quotes

» 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.

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

» Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

» 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.

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

» The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

» A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

» In these great times which I knew when they were this small; which will become small again, provided they have time left for it in these times in which things are happening that could not be imagined and in which what can no longer be imagined must happen, for if one could imagine it, it would not happen; in these serious times which have died laughing at the thought that they might become serious; which, surprised by their own tragedy, are reaching for diversion and, catching themselves red-handed, are groping for words... in these times you should not expect any words of my own from me -- none but these words which barely manage to prevent silence from being misinterpreted.

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

» Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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