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Max Weber Quotes: ...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.
         

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.


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This page presents the quote "...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.". Author of this quote is Max Weber. This quote is about poverty, wealth, capitalism,.