Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Jicin
Democracy
Opportunity
Everyone
Means
Mean
Slave
More quotes by Karl Kraus
There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
Karl Kraus
A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.
Karl Kraus
The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
Karl Kraus
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Karl Kraus
If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
Karl Kraus
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.
Karl Kraus
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
Karl Kraus
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.
Karl Kraus
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
Karl Kraus
In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
Karl Kraus
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Karl Kraus
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
Karl Kraus
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Karl Kraus
Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
Karl Kraus
It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.
Karl Kraus
I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.
Karl Kraus
Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
Karl Kraus
