... the power [...] has never disarmed, is today in certain respects stronger than ever, possesses a much better disciplined, more unconditionally submissive throng of officials than in any former century, and is only waiting for the hour when it can unscrupulously assert itself.

(about the Catholic Church) - The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts) (1899)