Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

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.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

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

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

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

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

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Living submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

To love means you also trust.

If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.