Max Weber
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An Act is distinguished from mere animal behavior on the basis of consciousness, reflection, intention, purpose, and meaning.
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Action theory is the idea that actions are grounded in the following fourfold: 1. Tradition (i.e. our people have always done it like this), 2. Affect (I.E it is emotionally satisfying), 3. Value-orientation (i.e. It is the right thing to do)... and 4. Instrumental reasoning (i.e. It is the most effective way to achieve a certain end).
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Art is, in modernity, at its greatest as an intimate, personal, situational form rather than as monumental because in modern times, only in personal human situations does the prophetic pneuma pulse while in former times it swept through the great communities like a firebrand, welding them together.
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Bureaucracy is a form that does not offer efficiency as such, but the reduction of uncertainty through the rational application of rules.
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Bureaucracy is a form which develops the more perfectly, the more it is 'dehumanized', the more it succeeds in eliminating from official business love, hatred and all purely personal, irrational, and emotional.
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Bureaucracy is a significant threat to democracy because even the master of politics stands as an utter 'dilettante' opposite the 'expert'.
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Bureaucracy is a system of administration associated with a high degree of specialization and a clearly defined division of labour, with tasks distributed as official duties.
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Bureaucracy is opposed to democracy in spite and perhaps because of its unavoidable yet unintended promotion of nothing other than bureaucratization.
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Bureaucracy is the triumph of instrumental rationality over substantive rationality... that is the triumph of pure means over (debates over) ends, of facts over (attention to) values, of administration over (debate within) politics, of certainty over (explorations of plurality), of outputs over (discussions over) outcomes.
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The Bureaucrat is armed against the politician with the 'official secret' 'the specific invention of bureaucracy, and nothing is so fanatically defended by the bureaucracy as this attitude'.
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Capitalism is, among early protestants, an expression of virtue and proficiency in a calling. For individuals like benjamin franklin it is not mere business astuteness, but an ethos, an ethic, a sign of virtue.
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Capitalism is not simply about wealth accumulation. It is the triumph of rationality over tradition, reflecting an ethos of the disciplined virtue of the spendthrift.
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Capitalism is not imposed upon the ordinary man by the superstructure but it came from him and is therefore a reflection of him.
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Capitalism is the ascetic spirit stripped from its religious origins. Business became reverence without responsibility, and the unsuccessful came to stand in for those poor in the right kind of spirituality.
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Charismatic authority is an individual's ability to exercise domination on the basis of personal and superhuman or supernatural qualities.
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Christianity is a salvation religion, which is to say, it is active and demanding of continuous struggles to be 'saved' by converting to certain principles and vying against sin and the negative aspects of society.