Occupation: Sociologist Birth: April 21, 1864 Death: June 14, 1920
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This i….
A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods….
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated a….
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 ….
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world..
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics..
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to….
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do..
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance..
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..
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another..
The Truth is the Truth..
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….
The decisive means for politics is violence..
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance..
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation..
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 our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the….
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view..
Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion..