The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

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.

I will get the work done with or without pay.

God doesn't promise us an easy life. But He does promise to love us and never leave us, no matter what happens.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.