Max Weber Quotes about Ethics

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

Responsibility, Opposites, Ethics

Max Weber, Peter Lassman, Ronald Speirs (1994). “Weber: Political Writings”, p.368, Cambridge University Press

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Clubs, Ethics, Cult

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

Earning, Ethics, Puritan

Max Weber (2012). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.53, Courier Corporation