Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

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