The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods Vilfredo Pareto More Quotes by Vilfredo Pareto More Quotes From 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. Vilfredo Pareto birthdemocracyable 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. Vilfredo Pareto menrealitypeople My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry. Vilfredo Pareto chemistryphysicswish Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true. Vilfredo Pareto being-truelimitslaw Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. Vilfredo Pareto rolesplaypeople Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. Vilfredo Pareto meyoutruthtime
