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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

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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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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.

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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Economist

Born: April 21st, 1864

Died: June 14th, 1920

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