Karl Kraus Quotes

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I'm totally human.

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.