A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
- Karl Kraus Quote

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
- Karl Kraus Quote

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
- Karl Kraus Quote

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

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
- Karl Kraus Quote

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
- Karl Kraus Quote

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus Quote

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
- Karl Kraus Quote

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
- Karl Kraus Quote

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
- Karl Kraus Quote

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
- Karl Kraus Quote

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
- Karl Kraus Quote

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.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
- Karl Kraus Quote

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
- Karl Kraus Quote

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
- Karl Kraus Quote

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
- Karl Kraus Quote

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
- Karl Kraus Quote

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
- Karl Kraus Quote

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
- Karl Kraus Quote

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
- Karl Kraus Quote

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
- Karl Kraus Quote

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.'
- Karl Kraus Quote