Author: Max Weber

Quotes

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

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

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

- Max Weber

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

- Max Weber

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

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

- Max Weber

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.

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.

- Max Weber

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

- Max Weber

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

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

- Max Weber

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

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

- Max Weber

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

- Max Weber

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