Quotes from the World for Wednesday 08/10/MMXI

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it

Karl Kraus
Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).