Karl Kraus Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.”

“Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.”

“Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.”

“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”

“Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.”

“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”

“It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.”

“Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.”

“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.'”

“Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.”