Max Weber

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…

— Max Weber

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the…

— Max Weber

The decisive means for politics is violence.

— Max Weber

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of…

— Max Weber

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

— Max Weber

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these…

— Max Weber

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of…

— Max Weber

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

— Max Weber

Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

— Max Weber

For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part…

— Max Weber

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

— Max Weber

Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was…

— Max Weber

“Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem…

— Max Weber

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…

— Max Weber

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…

— Max Weber

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and…

— Max Weber

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular…

— Max Weber

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

— Max Weber

“Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by…

— Max Weber

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary…

— Max Weber

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are…

— Max Weber

“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the…

— Max Weber

Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…

— Max Weber

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite…

— Max Weber

It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will…

— Max Weber