"Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy;……" — Vilfredo Pareto
"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, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth."
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Vilfredo Pareto
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17 Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto
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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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