Max Weber — "A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of vi…"

"In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business."

"The bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action."

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

"The first task of a competent teacher is to teach his students to acknowledge inconvenient facts. By these I mean facts that are inconvenient for their own personal political views. Such extremely inc…"

"In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow old to understand him.'"