Quotes from Karl Kraus

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.

Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.