However, in post-communist societies ethnic or national identity is above all a device for defining the community of the innocent and identifying the guilty who are responsible for 'our' predicament. p.174
However, in asking for the ‘legitimations’ of this obedience, one meets with these three ‘pure’ types: ‘traditional,’ ‘charismatic,’ and ‘legal.’ These conceptions of legitimacy and their inner justifications are of very great significance for the structure of domination.
Then the intensity of the search for the Kingdom of God commenced gradually to pass over into sober economic virtue; the religious roots died out slowly, giving way to utilitarian worldliness. Then, the isolated economic man takes the place of the lonely spiritual search for the Kingdom of heaven of Bunyan's pilgrim, hurrying through the market-place of Vanity. p.176
What is good? -- All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. p.127
This new law-table do I put over you, O my brothers: Become hard!
I live in my own place, have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself -- I laugh. OVER THE DOOR TO MY HOUSE
