Vilfredo Pareto: Quotes about people

Vilfredo Pareto was Italian economist and sociologist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
Vilfredo Pareto: 28 quotes2 likes

“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 book Manual of Political Economy

page 97.
Manual of Political Economy

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

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 321.
Manual of Political Economy

“It is a known 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.”

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 92.
Manual of Political Economy

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

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 301.
Manual of Political Economy

“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.”

Vilfredo Pareto book Manual of Political Economy

page 297.
Manual of Political Economy