"It is not true that good can only……" — Max Weber

"It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true."

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53 Quotes by Max Weber

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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing…
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism…
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.'…
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up…
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views…
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room…
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even…
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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