Quotes by Karl Kraus

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

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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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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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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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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

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

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