Karl Kraus Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  Karl Kraus

  Girl, Sex, Children

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Pants, Short Pants

• If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Blow, Adults

• Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Children, Doors

• Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Fear, Father

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Army, Play

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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