"When it is useful to them, men can……" — Vilfredo Pareto
"When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name."
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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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The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would…
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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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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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