333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

Parliamentarianism means putting political prostitution in barracks.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.