Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

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 terms of effect.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

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

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

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

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 the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.