Max Weber Quote on Power and Social Context
“Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.”
Max Weber
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Quote by Max Weber on the Possible and Impossible
“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.”
Max Weber
Quote by Max Weber on Passionate Devotion and Human Worth
“Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.”
Max Weber
Quote by Theodore Dalrymple on Responsibility and Addictive Behavior
“There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.”
Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple on Self-Control and Obesity
“Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.”
Theodore Dalrymple
Charisma Quote by Max Weber – Leadership and Inner Strength
“Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.”
Max Weber
True Heroism and Bravery – Quote by Theodore Dalrymple
“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”
Theodore Dalrymple
Peter Ustinov Quote on Love, Marriage, and Respect
“Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox – affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.”
Peter Ustinov
Sex and Relationship – Quote by Peter Ustinov
“Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.”
Peter Ustinov
Charles Wright Mills on Media Competition and Diversity of Opinion
“So long as the media are not entirely monopolized, the individual can play one medium off against another; he can compare them, and hence resist what any one of them puts out. The more genuine competition there is among the media, the more resistance the individual might be able to command. But how much is this now the case? Do people compare reports on public events or policies, playing one medium’s content off against another’s? The answer is: generally no, very few do: We know that people tend strongly to select those media which carry contents with which they already agree. There is a kind of selection of new opinions on the basis of prior opinions. No one seems to search out such counter-statements as may be found in alternative media offerings. Given radio programs and magazines and newspapers often get a rather consistent public, and thus reinforce their messages in the minds of that public. This idea of playing one medium off against another assumes that the media really have varying contents. It assumes genuine competition, which is not widely true. The media display an apparent variety and competition, but on closer view they seem to compete more in terms of variations on a few standardized themes than of clashing issues. The freedom to raise issues effectively seems more and more to be confined to those few interests that have ready and continual access to these media.”
Charles Wright Mills