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 nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

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

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

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

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