Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
