The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

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.

Piano Man put up a fight but his resistance was futile. Hell hath no fury like a drunken girl at her bachelorette party in the mood to sing.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

His mouth is a no-go area. It's like kissing the Berlin Wall.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

Our glorification of violence is ripping society apart. I don't want my children exposed to it.