"The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on……" — 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 the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them."
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Vilfredo Pareto
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17 Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social…
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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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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts…
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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…
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able…
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It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but 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…
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of…
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Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite;…
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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. [...]…
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More Arrangement Quotes
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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
— Aristotle
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
— Aristotle
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent…
— Erik Erikson
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I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees…
— Tony La Russa
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's…
— Roberto Burle Marx
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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— Will Durant
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Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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