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Max Weber Quotes: "The decisive means for politics is violence."

The decisive means for politics is violence.



Max Weber Quotes: "The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world."

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.




Max Weber Quotes: "A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence."

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.



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

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




Max Weber Quotes: "Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion."

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.



Max Weber Quotes: "All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view."

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



Max Weber Quotes: "Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance."

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.




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

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



Max Weber Quotes: "Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money."

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.



Max Weber Quotes: "The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production."

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.



Max Weber Quotes: "The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution."

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.



Max Weber Quotes: "Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics."

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.




Max Weber Quotes: "No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time."

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.



Max Weber Quotes: "Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance."

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.



Max Weber Quotes: "Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible."

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.



Max Weber Quotes: "Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated."

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.



Max Weber Quotes: "Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do."

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.



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

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



Max Weber Quotes: "Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar."

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.



Max Weber Quotes: "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."

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.



Max Weber Quotes: "The Truth is the Truth."

The Truth is the Truth.



Max Weber Quotes: "Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified."

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.



Max Weber Quotes: "The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one"

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one



Max Weber Quotes: "The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class."

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.



Max Weber Quotes: "Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation."

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.



Max Weber Quotes: "Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity."

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.



Max Weber Quotes: "Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose."

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.



Max Weber Quotes: "The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another."

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.



Max Weber Quotes: "Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity."

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.



Max Weber Quotes: "Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards."

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.



Max Weber Quotes: "A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics."

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.



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

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



Max Weber Quotes: "One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion."

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.



Max Weber Quotes: "Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith ."

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .



Max Weber Quotes: "One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed."

One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.



Max Weber Quotes: "Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal."

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.



Max Weber Quotes: "Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid."

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.



Max Weber Quotes: "Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics."

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



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

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



Max Weber Quotes: "... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases."

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.



Max Weber Quotes: "...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history."

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.



Max Weber Quotes: "Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism."

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.



Max Weber Quotes: "... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory."

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.



Max Weber Quotes: "As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything."

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.



Max Weber Quotes: "[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source from which new methods could be drawn in the struggle against the system(s)'."

[Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source from which new methods could be drawn in the struggle against the system(s)'.



Max Weber Quotes: "The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning."

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.



Max Weber Quotes: "Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts."

Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.