Karl Kraus

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

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