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Politics Quotes by Max Weber
- Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too…
- Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.
- The decisive means for politics is violence.
- The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling…
- Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
- A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
- Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
- 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…
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle