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
legs men news people reports shot stand theirs walk
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. ClichTs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
sick people proud
Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.
lying hero people
The heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
differences people madness
The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.
men two people
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
justice people forgiving
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
air people brain
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
time people democracy
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
people enough greetings
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.
people speak stage
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
people curiosity enlightenment
Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
people use language
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
people littles
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
people littles satire
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.