Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Max WeberThe experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max WeberThe summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
Max WeberThe term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.
Max Weber