Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

- Max Weber

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

- Max Weber

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

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

- Max Weber

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

- Max Weber

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

- Max Weber

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to…

- Max Weber

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

- Max Weber

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

- Max Weber