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.

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.

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

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.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.