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

Quote by Karl Kraus

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

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.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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...

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

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

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about...

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

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

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I...

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I...

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and...

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and...

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why...

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why...

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its...

Beauty?...To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its...