Economics Quotes by Max Weber

“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

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

— Max Weber

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

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

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

[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

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

— Max Weber

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

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

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

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

— Max Weber

“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.”

— Max Weber