The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

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

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

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

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

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