Max Weber

“Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.”

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

“Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical a...”

“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...”

“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.”

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

“Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.”

“Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.”

“All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodol...”

“One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.”