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

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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.

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A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legit... by Max Weber

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

politics government use

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with pass... by Max Weber

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

passionate devotion men

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

chance social integrity

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

disenchanted fate world

The decisive means for politics is violence. by Max Weber

The decisive means for politics is violence.

violence military mean

The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.

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

views may reality

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.

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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

distribution-of-power groups mean

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

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

wish doe men

The Truth is the Truth. by Max Weber

The Truth is the Truth.

truth-is

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 opinions.

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Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside... by Max Weber

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

charisma leader knows

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

revolution religious world

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.

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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

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It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

good-and-evil evil opposites

Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

historical impossible men

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

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