Max Weber Quotes

Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succee...

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

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating...

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of vie...

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...

Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either am...

The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I ...

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hard...

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often ...

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at...

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis.....

... It is immensely moving when a mature man - no matter whether old or young in years - is aware of...

... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of phy...

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainl...

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the ...

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: ‘Science is meaningless because it gives no a...

The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early ...

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective...

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of ratio...

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possib...

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian ascet...

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut...

As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the m...