Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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 impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.

Max Weber's Popular Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Max Weber

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

- Max Weber