Max Weber

“Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized'.”

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

“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world'.”

“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world'.”

“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.”

“Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized,' the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional elements which escape calculation.”

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

“The fate of an epoch which has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must know... that we cannot learn the meaning of the world from the results of its analysis, be it ever so perfect.”

“Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”

“A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”

“Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”

“One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.”

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

“The modern man is, in general, even with the best will, unable to give religious ideas a significance for culture and national character which they deserve.”

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

“Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

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

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

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

“One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.”