7 Karl Kraus Quotes on Morality

Karl Kraus quotes on morality

13. Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.

18. Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

19. Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

33. Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

42. The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.

46. To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

48. When someone behaves like a beast, he says: 'After all, one is only human.' But when he is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, one is human.'