Karl Kraus

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.