“ Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point… Max Weber
“ ... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases. Max Weber
“ As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything. Max Weber
“ The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect i… 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 so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of… Max Weber
“ It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Max Weber
“ Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism. Max Weber
“ No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. Max Weber
“ 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. Max Weber
“ Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unles… Max Weber
“ The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historica… Max Weber
“ Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. Max Weber
“ 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. Max Weber
“ Bureaucracy develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more completely it succeeds in eliminating from business love, hatred, and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional ele… Max Weber
“ ...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. Max Weber
“ 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 economic… Max Weber
