Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.
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.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.