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 chancecontextimpose Change image and share on social
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. Max Weber exactimportantlaw Change image and share on social
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics. Max Weber clubcultdevelop Change image and share on social
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. Max Weber administrationbureaucraticcontinuity share on social
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics. Max Weber applicationarisedetermine share on social
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. Max Weber artisticbearconcrete Change image and share on social
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. Max Weber antidiscardfavour Change image and share on social
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. Max Weber beingconferculture Change image and share on social
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. Max Weber ageanalysiscultural share on social
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. Max Weber complementaryconvictionethic Change image and share on social
