Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. "
Karl Kraus
Will
Praise
Without
Related Quotes:
" Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. "
Karl Kraus
Synthesis
Analysis
Art
" An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. "
Karl Kraus
Catching
Feeling
Idea
" Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions. "
Karl Kraus
Law
Sorry
Most
" Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. "
Karl Kraus
Follow
Then
Christian
" Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. "
Karl Kraus
Epic
Masculine
Passion
" No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. "
Karl Kraus
Express
Ideas
Ability
" 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
Man
Like
Beast
" A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. "
Karl Kraus
Never
Child
Short
" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "
Karl Kraus
Sex
Children
Education
" Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. "
Karl Kraus
Language
Mother
Thought
" 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. "
Karl Kraus
Ideas
Skill
Time
" Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. "
Karl Kraus
Work
Time
People
" Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave. "
Karl Kraus
Opportunity
Slave
Everyone
" Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower. "
Karl Kraus
Ideal
Want
Who
" Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. "
Karl Kraus
Because
Something
Nothing
" Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. "
Karl Kraus
Scandal
Begins
Police
" It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. "
Karl Kraus
Old
New
Style
" To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. "
Karl Kraus
Same
Men
Equal
" It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean. "
Karl Kraus
Does
Than
Means
" I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. "
Karl Kraus
Up
Having
Case
" There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. "
Karl Kraus
Never
Anything
Him
" Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. "
Karl Kraus
Martyrdom
Matrimony
Meanness
" How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. "
Karl Kraus
See
Lie
World
" Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. "
Karl Kraus
Virtue
Boredom
Morality
" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
Karl Kraus
Man
Woman
Heart
" Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. "
Karl Kraus
Well
Some
Sexuality
" You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. "
Karl Kraus
Idea
Surprised
Action
" Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. "
Karl Kraus
Pass
Education
Receive
" Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. "
Karl Kraus
People
Avoid
Solitude
" Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. "
Karl Kraus
Mental Illness
Mental
Illness