Quotations From KARL KRAUS

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• 41.

  In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
• 42.

  I am not for women but against men.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 43.

  I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 44.

  Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. First published in Die Fackel (1902). Morality and Criminal Justice, title essay (1908).
• 45.

  Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
• 46.

  Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 47.

  This is something that I cannot get over—that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian satirist. Nachts, ch. 6 (1918).
  
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• 48.

  A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 49.

  What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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• 50.

  It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

  Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).
  
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