Max Weber — "Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and p…"

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

"Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance."

"It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones - a state of affairs which is to …"

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

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