Karl Kraus Quotes

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.