For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

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.