Max Weber Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.”

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

“Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.”

“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 of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.”

“All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.”

“The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.”

“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.”

“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.”

“Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.”