A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
The decisive means for politics is violence.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
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.