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

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

Sun

Woman

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Karl Kraus

People

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

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

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Karl Kraus

Word

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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

Karl Kraus

Time

Aphorisms

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

People

Solitude

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Karl Kraus

Sexuality

World

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Karl Kraus

Nothing

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

Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.