Crime Quote by Max Weber Download Open image “A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.” — Max Weber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Government Institutions Monopoly Politics Use Violence
Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey,… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image