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

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

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

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.

Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

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.