Karl Kraus

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.

- Karl Kraus