Max Weber Quotes

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

  Max Weber

  Government, Use, Politics

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• 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

  Integrity, Chance, Social

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

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  Reality, Views, May

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.117, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Max Weber

  Fate, World, Disenchanted

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

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  Party, People, Leader

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.42, Routledge

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

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  Men, Passionate, Devotion

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.135, Routledge

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

  Max Weber

  Men, Wish, Doe

  Max Weber (2012). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

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  Government, Defining, Action

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

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  Leader, Charisma, Knows

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

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  Opposites, Evil, Good And Evil

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• The decisive means for politics is violence.

  Max Weber

  Military, Mean, Violence

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.121, Routledge

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• 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

  Mean, Distribution Of Power, Groups

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.78, Routledge

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• A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

  Max Weber

  Unique, Organization, Unity

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

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  Religious, World, Revolution

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

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  Max Weber, Hans Gerth (1991). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.84, Psychology Press

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• The Truth is the Truth.

  Max Weber

  Truth Is

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Party, Mean

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.147, Routledge

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• 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

  Culture, World, Infinity

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.115, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.

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  Artist, Soldier, Gains

  1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).

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

  Max Weber

  Responsibility, Opposites, Ethics

  Max Weber, Peter Lassman, Ronald Speirs (1994). “Weber: Political Writings”, p.368, Cambridge University Press

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• The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

  Max Weber

  Art, Philosophy, Fate

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

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• 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

  Men, Historical, Impossible

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.128, Routledge

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

  Max Weber

  Science, Fulfillment, Questioning

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.298, University of Chicago Press

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

  Max Weber

  Struggle, Moving, Fate

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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