In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.
Karl KrausA comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
Karl KrausMany desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.
Karl KrausThe heroes of obtrusiveness, people with whom no soldier would lie down in the trenches, though he has to submit to being interviewed by them, break into recently abandoned royal castles so that they can report, "We got there first!" It would be far less shameful to be paid for committing atrocities than for fabricating them.
Karl Kraus