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“Il faut concevoir l’État contemporain comme une communauté humaine qui, dans les limites d’un territoire déterminé […], revendique avec succès pour son propre compte le monopole de la violence physique légitime.”

Max Weber livre Le Savant et le politique

Staat ist diejenige menschliche Gemeinschaft, welche innerhalb eines bestimmten Gebietes […] das Monopol legitimer physischer Gewaltsamkeit für sich (mit Erfolg) beansprucht.
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Le Savant et le politique, 1959

“Abraham ou les paysans d'autrefois sont morts "vieux et comblés par la vie" parce qu'ils étaient installés dans le cycle organique de la vie, parce que celle-ci leur avait apporté au déclin de leurs jours tout le sens qu'elle pouvait leur offrir et parce qu'il ne subsistait aucune énigme qu'ils auraient encore voulu résoudre. Ils pouvaient donc se dire "satisfaits" de la vie. L'homme civilisé au contraire, placé dans le mouvement d'une civilisation qui s'enrichit continuellement de pensées, de savoirs et de problèmes, peut se sentir "las" de la vie et non pas "comblé" par elle. En effet il ne peut jamais saisir qu'une infime partie de tout ce que la vie de l'esprit produit sans cesse de nouveau, il ne peut saisir que du provisoire et jamais du définitif. C'est pourquoi la mort est à ses yeux un événement qui n'a pas de sens.”

Max Weber livre Le Savant et le politique

Le Savant et le politique, 1959

Max Weber: Citations en anglais

“Sociology is the science whose object is to interpret the meaning of social action and thereby give a causal explanation of the way in which the action proceeds and the effects which it produces. By "action" in this definition is meant the human behaviour when and to the extent that the agent or agents see it as subjectively meaningful […] the meaning to which we refer may be either (a) the meaning actually intended either by an individual agent on a particular historical occasion or by a number of agents on an approximate average in a given set of cases, or (b) the meaning attributed to the agent or agents, as types, in a pure type constructed in the abstract. In neither case is the "meaning" to be thought of as somehow objectively "correct" or "true" by some metaphysical criterion. This is the difference between the empirical sciences of action, such as sociology and history and any kind of a priori discipline, such as jurisprudence, logic, ethics, or aesthetics whose aim is to extract from their subject-matter "correct" or "valid" meaning.”

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Max Weber, The Nature of Social Action, 1922

“The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the “intellectual sacrifice”— is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of “science” and the sphere of “the holy” is unbridgeable.”

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Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946), p. 154; Essay: "The prestige and power of the “Great Powers."

“The Confucian aspirant to office, stemming from the old tradition, could hardly help viewing a specialized, professional training of European stamp as anything but a conditioning in the dirtiest Philistinism. … The fundamental assertion, ‘a cultured man is not a tool’ meant that he was an end in himself and not just a means for a specified useful purpose.”

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Source: Religion of China (1915), p. 160

“Luther understands monasticism as a product of an egoistic lovelessness that withdraws from one's duties in the world. By contrast, this-worldly work in a vocation appears to him to be a visible expression of brotherly love, a notion he anchors in a highly unrealistic manner indeed and in contrast—almost grotesquely—to the well-known passages of Adam Smith.”

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Max Weber livre The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 3 : Luther's Conception of the Calling

“The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.”

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Source: Sociology of Religion (1922), p. 217

“Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below, fundamental for our discussion is the investigation of the idea of a testifying to one's belief as the psychological point of origin for methodical ethics.”

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Max Weber livre The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 4 : The Religious Foundations of This-Wordly Asceticism

“What interests us here is the assimilative power of the Hindu life order due to its legitimation of social rank.”

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Source: Religion of India (1916), p. 20

“The Truth is the Truth.”

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Max Weber's last words (1920), as quoted in Prophets of Yesterday : Studies in European Culture, 1890-1914 (1961) by Gerhard Masur, p. 201

“Politics means a strong slow drilling of hard boards, with passion and judgment at the same time.”

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German: "Die Politik bedeutet ein starkes langsames Bohren von harten Brettern mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß zugleich."
"Politics as a Vocation" (1919)

“The problem — the experience of the irrationality of the world — has been the driving force of all religious evolution. The Indian doctrine of karma, Persian dualism, the doctrine of original sin, predestination and the deus absconditus, all these have grown out of this experience. Also the early Christians knew full well the world is governed by demons and that he who lets himself in for politics, that is, for power and force as means, contracts with diabolical powers and for his action it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”

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Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946), p. 124; Essay "Politics as a vocation"

“Both as ruling and ruled strata and both as a majority and minority, Protestants … have demonstrated a specific tendency toward economic rationalism.”

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Max Weber livre The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

This tendency has not been observed in the same way in the present or the past among Catholics, regardless of whether they were the dominant or dominated stratum or constituted a majority or minority. Therefore the cause of the different behavior must be mainly sought in the enduring inner quality of these religions and not only in their respective historical-political external situations.
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 1 : Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification