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

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

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

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

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.

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

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