Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory… — 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
