Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus
Karl Krauswas an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. The Austrian author Stefan Zweig once called Kraus "the master of venomous ridicule"...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 April 1874
CountryAustria
satire censored
Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.
war fighting winning
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.
time writing deadline
A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time
dream pockets psychoanalysis
The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
peace war expectations
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
real lying information
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.
education teacher
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
german-language littles today
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
respect dimensions size
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.
pain father pride
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.
money medicine
Medicine: "Your money and your life!
trust mean vain
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
thieves victim valuable
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
people enough greetings
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.