The decisive means for politics is violence.

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

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

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

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

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.

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