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Top 25 Vilfredo Pareto Quotes (2025 Update)

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”

2. “For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.”

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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.”

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

4. “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

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

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

$Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.”$

6. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.”

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

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

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

10. “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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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “History is a graveyard of aristocracies.”

12. “History is a graveyard of aristocracies.”

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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.”

13. “Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.”

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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.”

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “Usually, so far as improvement in the people’s economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.”

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

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

18. “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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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one’s own goods.”

19. “The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one’s own goods.”

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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.”

25. “People reasoning on essences may sometimes substitute certitude for probability, even very great probability. But we know nothing about essences and accordingly lose our certitude.”

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Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Pareto Quote: “The sentiment that is very inappropriately named quality 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, that latter being their chief concern.”

27. “The sentiment that is very inappropriately named quality 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, that latter being their chief concern.”

— Vilfredo Pareto

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