Quotes about Karl Kraus

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose...

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself...

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

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

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short...

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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order...

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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it...

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

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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

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

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

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