Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say 'In spite of all!' has the calling for 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.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

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

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

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

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