Reinhard Bendix Quotes

• Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

  Reinhard Bendix

  Fate, Perspective, Focus

  Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

  Reinhard Bendix

  Fate, Men, Made

  Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

  Reinhard Bendix

  Evil, Quality, Moral

  Reinhard Bendix (1989). “Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge”, p.187, Transaction Publishers

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