All Max Weber Quotes
- Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to… Administration
- It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… Appal
- specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved. Achieved
- A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Government
- [In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that… Achieved
- Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general… Act
- The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern… Agents
- Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. Among
- Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. Confines
- A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics. Club
- One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility. Absolute
- Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. Anti
- Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too… Base