Karl Kraus Literature Quotations

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

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

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

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

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

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.