Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Quote by Karl Kraus

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

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

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of...

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of...

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave

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

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

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When...

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When...

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them...

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't...

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't...

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they...

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation...

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman...

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman...

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome...