Max Weber
Max Weber
Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weberwas a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 April 1864
CountryGermany
machines doe compare
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
opposites evil good-and-evil
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.
jesus culture rooms
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.
mean distribution-of-power groups
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
reality views may
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
integrity chance social
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
art fate historical
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.
party people leader
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 longer free to interfere in his business.
government use politics
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
military mean violence
The decisive means for politics is violence.