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

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.

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

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.

CA means Challenge it, Achieve it, Loop it. I am a Chartered Accountant.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

The library is my cathedral.

Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.