Max Weber: Politics as a Vocation

   "The will to power, narrowly stated as the need for power or motive for power, is defined more accurately as the ability to overcome resistance in the achievement of values.  The individuals who are able to overcome the most resistance are the Ubermensch or "superman".  The idea that humans are motivated by the need to realize values became the core of Weber's theory of human action, or what motivates human action.  The concept of ubermensch became the foundation of Weber's notion of charismatic domination".

   In this quote it is said that human are driven to succeed in life by having a purpose, and that's to reach their value or goal.  The need to gain power will always have a value which individuals will want to have in their hands.  I choose this quote because its a reality when it comes to humans.  When someone has a purpose in life and for them to achieve their goal they will always encounter a rough path to get to it.  As the saying says "not all that glitters is gold", and all humans will under go trial and error to get to what they want.  Having your price at the end of your journey will be something that anyone will appreciate even more after seeing all the bumps along the road that they had to move out of the way to make it.  "The grass its always greener on the other side" and having succeed in life is ever sweeter when you know you gave it all you had to reach it.