--- title: "77 Max Weber Quotes - Famous Jurist (Die Säugetiere)" description: "Max Weber quotes explore power, science, and unexpected ideas." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-max-weber-8418.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-max-weber-8418.jpg) # Max Weber (1864–1920) Jurist **77** quotes in **533** categories Max Weber says a government holds a monopoly on legitimate violence, a power that shapes society. He also notes that science’s achievements fade quickly, becoming outdated in decades. Finally, he points out that ideas often appear when we stop forcing them, emerging unexpectedly. Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Max Weber was a jurist, best known for *Die Säugetiere*. ## Quick Facts About Max Weber Born April 21, 1864 Died June 14, 1920 Profession Jurist Notable works Die Säugetiere ## About Max Weber Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally. His ideas continue to influence social theory and research. ## Quotes by Max Weber > [The decisive means for politics is violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-decisive-means-for-politics-is-violence/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inspirational/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/max-weber-8418_inspirational_the-decisive-means-for-politics-is-viole_2179710.png) > [The Truth is the Truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-truth-is-the-truth/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Truth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/truth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/max-weber-8418_truth_the-truth-is-the-truth-1959750_1959750.png) > [Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/every-scientific-fulfillment-raises-new-questions-it-asks-to-be/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Asks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asks/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/max-weber-8418_asks_every-scientific-fulfillment-raises-new_2708540.png) > [Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/man-does-not-by-nature-wish-to-earn-more-and-more-money/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Doe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/max-weber-8418_doe_man-does-not-by-nature-wish-to-earn-more_2222608.png) > [A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/a-highly-developed-stock-exchange-cannot-be-a-club-for-the-cult-of/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Cannot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cannot/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ab/max-weber-8418_cannot_a-highly-developed-stock-exchange-cannot_858295.png) > [Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/politics-is-a-strong-and-slow-boring-of-hard-boards/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Boards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boards/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/max-weber-8418_boards_politics-is-a-strong-and-slow-boring-of_1902294.png) > [Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/every-type-of-purely-direct-concrete-description-bears-the-mark-of/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a5/max-weber-8418_art_every-type-of-purely-direct-concrete-des_1795797.png) > [Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/nothing-is-worthy-of-man-as-man-unless-he-can-pursue-it-with/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Devotion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/devotion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/max-weber-8418_devotion_nothing-is-worthy-of-man-as-man-unless-h_1979173.png) > [A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/a-government-is-an-institution-that-holds-a-monopoly-on-the/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crime/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e5/max-weber-8418_crime_a-government-is-an-institution-that-hold_71057.png) > [Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/charisma-is-the-gift-from-above-where-a-leader-knows-from-inside/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Charisma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/charisma/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a3/max-weber-8418_charisma_charisma-is-the-gift-from-above-where-a_1063639.png) > [The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-experience-of-the-irrationality-of-the-world-has-been-the-driving/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Driving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/driving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b3f/max-weber-8418_driving_the-experience-of-the-irrationality-of-t_130220.png) > [No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/no-sociologist-should-think-himself-too-good-even-in-his-old-age-to/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db7/max-weber-8418_age_no-sociologist-should-think-himself-too_1311612.png) > [It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/it-is-not-true-that-good-can-follow-only-from-good-and-evil-only-from-2/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Evil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/evil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/max-weber-8418_evil_it-is-not-true-that-good-can-follow-only_1554531.png) > [The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-purely-emotional-form-of-pietism-is-as-ritschl-has-pointed-out-a/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Class](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/class/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/776/max-weber-8418_class_the-purely-emotional-form-of-pietism-is_1252139.png) > [Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/politics-means-striving-to-share-power-or-striving-to-influence-the/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Distribution](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/distribution/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/max-weber-8418_distribution_politics-means-striving-to-share-power-o_524060.png) > [Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/not-everyone-realises-that-to-write-a-really-good-piece-of-journalism/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Achievement](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/achievement/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e3/max-weber-8418_achievement_not-everyone-realises-that-to-write-a-re_2029134.png) > [Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/culture-is-a-finite-segment-of-the-meaningless-infinity-of-the-world/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Culture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/culture/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db0/max-weber-8418_culture_culture-is-a-finite-segment-of-the-meani_2522722.png) > [“Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/yet-it-is-a-fact-that-no-amount-of-such-enthusiasm-however-sincere/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Enthusiasm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enthusiasm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51c/max-weber-8418_enthusiasm_yet-it-is-a-fact-that-no-amount-of-such_2467656.png) > [The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-nation-is-burdened-with-the-heavy-curse-on-those-who-come/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Activism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/activism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/390/max-weber-8418_activism_the-nation-is-burdened-with-the-heavy-cu_86383.jpg) > [Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/capitalism-may-even-be-identical-with-the-restraint-or-at-least-a/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/max-weber-8418_business_capitalism-may-even-be-identical-with-th_2909538.png) > [All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/all-the-analysis-of-infinite-reality-which-the-finite-human-mind-can/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Analysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analysis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fb/max-weber-8418_analysis_all-the-analysis-of-infinite-reality-whi_2956059.png) > [The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-great-virtue-of-bureaucracy-indeed-perhaps-its-defining/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/max-weber-8418_action_the-great-virtue-of-bureaucracy-indeed-p_1663374.png) > [The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-impulse-to-acquisition-pursuit-of-gain-of-money-of-the-greatest/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Acquisition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquisition/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/max-weber-8418_acquisition_the-impulse-to-acquisition-pursuit-of-ga_2517736.png) > [“Now the history of philosophy shows that religious belief which is primarily mystical may very well be compatible with a pronounced sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/now-the-history-of-philosophy-shows-that-religious-belief-which-is/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Faith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee2/max-weber-8418_faith_now-the-history-of-philosophy-shows-that_1940580.jpg) > [However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/however-many-people-complain-about-the-red-tape-it-would-be-sheer/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Administrative](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/administrative/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/max-weber-8418_administrative_however-many-people-complain-about-the-r_3064488.png) > [Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/ideas-come-when-we-do-not-expect-them-and-not-when-we-are-brooding/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Answers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/answers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91b/max-weber-8418_answers_ideas-come-when-we-do-not-expect-them-an_134514.png) > [For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/for-when-asceticism-was-carried-out-of-monastic-cells-into-everyday/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Acquisition](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquisition/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fa/max-weber-8418_acquisition_for-when-asceticism-was-carried-out-of-m_2315693.png) > [In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/in-the-midst-of-a-culture-that-is-rationally-organized-for-a/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Buddhism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buddhism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a4/max-weber-8418_buddhism_in-the-midst-of-a-culture-that-is-ration_579239.jpg) > [“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/politics-is-a-strong-and-slow-boring-of-hard-boards-it-takes-both/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Leader](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/leader/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3c/max-weber-8418_leader_politics-is-a-strong-and-slow-boring-of_2743473.jpg) > [“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/it-is-horrible-to-think-that-the-world-could-one-day-be-filled-with/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Bureaucracy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bureaucracy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e5/max-weber-8418_bureaucracy_it-is-horrible-to-think-that-the-world-c_61498.jpg) > [It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/it-is-true-that-the-path-of-human-destiny-cannot-but-appal-him-who/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Artistic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/278/max-weber-8418_artistic_it-is-true-that-the-path-of-human-destin_2959365.jpg) > [The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-term-charisma-will-be-applied-to-a-certain-quality-of-an/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Bases](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bases/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ed/max-weber-8418_bases_the-term-charisma-will-be-applied-to-a-c_2716456.png) > [The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-fate-of-our-times-is-characterized-by-rationalization-and/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94b/max-weber-8418_art_the-fate-of-our-times-is-characterized-b_259208.png) > [“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-ultimately-possible-attitudes-toward-life-are-irreconcilable-and-2/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec5/max-weber-8418_life_the-ultimately-possible-attitudes-toward_616358.png) > [Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/either-one-lives-for-politics-or-one-lives-off-politics/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Either](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/either/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/max-weber-8418_either_either-one-lives-for-politics-or-one-liv_1711588.png) > [Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/laws-are-important-and-valuable-in-the-exact-natural-sciences-in-the/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Exact](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/exact/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/471/max-weber-8418_exact_laws-are-important-and-valuable-in-the-e_2289723.png) > [Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/daily-and-hourly-the-politician-inwardly-has-to-overcome-a-quite/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Enemy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23d/max-weber-8418_enemy_daily-and-hourly-the-politician-inwardly_305685.png) > [The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-ethic-of-conviction-and-the-ethic-of-responsibility-are-not/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Complementary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/complementary/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f1/max-weber-8418_complementary_the-ethic-of-conviction-and-the-ethic-of_1370504.png) > [Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/within-the-confines-of-the-lecture-hall-no-other-virtue-exists-but/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/287/max-weber-8418_character_within-the-confines-of-the-lecture-hall_1180980.png) > [One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/one-can-say-that-three-pre-eminent-qualities-are-decisive-for-the/) [Max Weber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/) [Passion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/passion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e95/max-weber-8418_passion_one-can-say-that-three-pre-eminent-quali_798533.png) ## Max Weber by topic [Politics (14)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/politics/max-weber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-weber/#itemlist", "name": "Max Weber Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The decisive means for politics is violence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Max Weber" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-weber/the-decisive-means-for-politics-is-violence/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": 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