Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)


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

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- Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

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- The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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- Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

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- A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

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- Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

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- Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

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- The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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- Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

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- Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

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

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- What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

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- Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.