333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

Since the law prohibits the keeping of wild animals and I get no enjoyment from pets, I prefer to remain unmarried.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.