All Karl Kraus Quotes
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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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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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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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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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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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought.
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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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