Max Weber — "Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money."

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

"The Protestant wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so."

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

"To put it bluntly, I ask myself firstly, are such people truly serious about any ethical and moral convictions? I am convinced that in nine out of ten cases, they are windbags puffed up with hot air a…"