The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

Tattooed men who are not behind bars are either latent criminals or degenerate aristocrats. If someone who is tattooed dies in freedom, then he does so a few years before he would have committed murder.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.