Vilfredo Pareto Quotes
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and…
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The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
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The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the…
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in…
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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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,…
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now,…
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It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of…
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the…
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
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Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to…
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My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.
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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that…
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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…
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Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
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