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… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little… — Max Weber Copy Share
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share
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… — Max Weber Copy Share
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a… — Max Weber Copy Share
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 Copy Share
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,… — Max Weber Copy Share
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not… — Max Weber Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and… — Max Weber Copy Share
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Judgments of the importance of a historical phenomena may be judgments of value or faith, namely, when they refer to what is alone interesting,… — Max Weber Copy Share
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. — Max Weber Copy Share
