“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Image
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the… — 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 Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share Image