"No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. One cannot with impunity try to…"

"Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional ele…"

"A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence."

"specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."

"Vanity is a very widely spread trait and probably nobody is entirely free of it. Certainly, among scholars and academic circles it is kind of an occupational disease. Nevertheless, especially for a sc…"