Max Weber — "The bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organ…"

"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…"

"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."

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

"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."

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