"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…"

"The Protestant ethic was the foundation of modern rational capitalism."

"Politics is the strong and slow boring of hard boards."

"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…"

"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world."