"The decisive means for politics is violence." — Max Weber
"The decisive means for politics is violence."
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Max Weber
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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…
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism…
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.'…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up…
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
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The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views…
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room…
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
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One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even…
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his…
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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