Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point...
Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.
As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.
The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect i...
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of...
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
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.
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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 historica...
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unles...
Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional ele...
...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.