Occupation: Sociologist Birth: April 21, 1864 Death: June 14, 1920
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics..
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation..
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state..
The Truth is the Truth..
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for t….
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another..
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no lo….
Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money..
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution..
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence..
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view..
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to….
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true..
Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion..
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world..
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance..
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do..
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the….
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance..
The decisive means for politics is violence..
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated..