Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto - Page 1

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
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Bursting
Corrections
Give Me
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Anytime
Error
Fruitful
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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
Believe
Names
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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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Party
Philosophy
Political
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The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
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Men
Doe
Merit
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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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Chemistry
Physics
Wish
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
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Land
Long
Numbers
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Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.
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Being True
Law
Limits
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Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Education
Inspirational
Teenager
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Truth
Bursting
Corrections
Give Me
Seeds
Yourself
Time Yourself Your
Any
Own
Error
Truth Time Me
Fruitful
Give
Sterile
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Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
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People
Play
Roles
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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.
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Bird
Children
Sincere
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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.
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Leadership
Elements
Numbers
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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.
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America
Luxury
United States
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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.
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Aristocracy
People
Revolution
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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.
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Men
Eye
Intellectual
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Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is simply that law of which the person using the phrase approves[....]
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Example
Law
Phrases
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All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.
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Government
Expression
People
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Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.
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Men
Science
Passion
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The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
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Men
People
Reality
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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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Philosophy
Political
Progressive Taxation
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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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Able
Birth
Democracy
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The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.
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Effectiveness
Struggle
Useless
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If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.
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Animal
Cat
Dog
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There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.
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Men
People
Years
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Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.
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Battle
Knowing
Victory
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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 look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.
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Men
Self
Would Be
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The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, this latter being their chief concern.
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Believe
Escaping
Strong
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.
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Knowledge
Men
Science
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