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Vilfredo Pareto

"Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory."

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

Vilfredo Pareto

#Knowing Quotes #Victory Quotes #Battle Quotes

“They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.”
“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”
“Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.”
“What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.”
“All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.”
“Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from looking at its picture symbols, rather than visual reading of syllables in our sense.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Even disasters -- there are always disasters when you travel -- can be turned into adventures.”
“I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.”

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