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.

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

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

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

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