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KARL KRAUS QUOTES

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

KARL KRAUS, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

KARL KRAUS, Morality and Criminal Justice

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

KARL KRAUS, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths

Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

KARL KRAUS, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

KARL KRAUS, Die Fackel, Oct. 19, 1917


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