Vilfredo Pareto Quotes

…in every city are found two diverse humors, and this arises from the fact that the common people desire neither to be commanded nor oppressed by the great, and the powerful men desire to command and oppress the people..

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

The courts, over time, have always responded to the dominant classes in our society.

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for suppressing another.

An issue between a people and a class

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs;

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.