The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

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

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

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.