Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

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.

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.

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Every experience makes you a man.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

Every time I stepped on the field, I believed my team was going to walk off the winner, somehow, someway.

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for better or for worse.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.