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

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

"The Protestant ethic was the foundation of modern rational capitalism."

"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."

"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant."