Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Our elite has not evolved in 20 years, and the instincts of this elite are not democratic.

I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Private interests often keep up Customs and Privileges, when the reasons of them are ceased

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.