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
journalism missions intellect
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.
broken triumph thieves
The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.
music ocean style
Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.
clerks journalism shortage
There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.
disappointment views perspective
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.
dirty home psychology
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
men premature ideals
The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.
long aphorism
One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.
patriotism unattractive aversion
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
journalism prophet historian
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
education school wine
A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
art writing erotic
Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.
dirty humanity tears
Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.
life family privacy
Family life is an encroachment on private life.