Top 34 Quotes by Max Weber

About Max Weber

These are some quotes by German author Max Weber Economist, who lived between April 21, 1864 and June 14, 1920.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Max Weber

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.

Max Weber

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Max Weber

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Max Weber

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

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

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Max Weber

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

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

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

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.

Max Weber

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