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
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. – Karl Kraus
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. – Karl Kraus
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. – Karl Kraus
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. – Karl Kraus
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. – 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
Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. – Karl Kraus
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
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. – Karl Kraus