The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love. In These Great Times : A Karl Kraus Reader (1976)
The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace. Beim Wort genommen (1955)
Hate must make a person productive; otherwise one might as well love. Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
What is my love? That I amalgamate the bad features of a woman into a good picture. And my hatred? That I see the bad features in the picture of a bad man. Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)