Karl Kraus Quotes

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Evil changes everybody!

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

Evil is whatever distracts.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The devil's name is dullness.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

We are all born marked for evil.

Whoever desires to found a nation and give it laws must begin by assuming that all men are bad and always ready to display their evil nature.

We suppose mankind more honest than they are.

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.