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

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

- Karl Kraus

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

- Karl Kraus

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

- Karl Kraus

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

- Karl Kraus

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

- Karl Kraus

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

- Karl Kraus

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

- Karl Kraus

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus

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

- Karl Kraus