Economics Quote by Vilfredo Pareto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

— Vilfredo Pareto

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

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

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

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

— Vilfredo Pareto