Max Weber

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.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

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 historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.