The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

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

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.

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

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.