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

"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 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…"

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

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

"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant."