Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
The decisive means for politics is violence.
Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
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.