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

"And anyone who lacks the ability to don blinkers for once and to convince himself that the destiny of his soul depends upon whether he is right to make precisely this conjecture and no other at this p…"

"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…"

"The Protestant wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so."

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