"specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."

"I am a member of the bourgeoisie and feel myself to be such, and I have been brought up in their opinions and ideals."

"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…"

"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true."

"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…"