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

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

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.

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