Max Weber — "In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow …"

"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."

"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…"

"I am a member of the bourgeoisie and feel myself to be such, and I have been brought up in their opinions and ideals."

"The decisive means for politics is violence."

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