{"author":"Max Weber","author_id":"Max+Weber","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["laws","policies","politics"],"id":21466,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["bias","factual","opinion"],"id":38146,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"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.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["time","good","old age "],"id":42558,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"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.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["belief","intellectualism","nature","significance"],"id":44027,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"Weber,... Argues that... Personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["bias","fact","lobbying","science"],"id":65142,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"... A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopolyof the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["government","military","police","power"],"id":81613,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... From the spirit of Christian asceticism.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["career","destiny","jobs"],"id":108480,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["reality","view","always "],"id":111109,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"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 unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["politics"],"id":111155,"author_id":"Max+Weber"},{"text":"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 historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.","author":"Max Weber","tags":["power","politics","men "],"id":115695,"author_id":"Max+Weber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}