333 Quotes by Karl Kraus

To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.

If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Today's literature: prescriptions written by patients.

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

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence!

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.