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 Read Quote
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view. Max Weber Read Quote
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. Max Weber Read Quote
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. Max Weber Read Quote
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production. Max Weber Read Quote
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 in the strictly bureaucratic administration. Max Weber Read Quote
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire. Max Weber Read Quote