Max Weber
Sociology, bureaucracy
Modern
influential
23 sayings
Sayings by 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 elements which escape calculation.
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— Describing the ideal-type bureaucracy as devoid of human emotion and personal considerations, which …
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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— A stark and realistic definition of power, emphasizing its coercive potential regardless of moral co…
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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.
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— A morally ambiguous statement that challenges conventional ethical assumptions about cause and effec…
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