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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

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

KARL KRAUS, Beim Wort Genommen

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

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

KARL KRAUS, "The Good Conduct Medal"

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

KARL KRAUS, Beim Wort Genommen

"A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just come around; mine is always lit."

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


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