Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

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.

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

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

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