"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."

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

Vilfredo Pareto

#Democracy Quotes #Able Quotes #Birth Quotes

“Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.”
“Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.”

Source : "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.
“Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.”
“Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.”
“I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.”
“Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.”
“Humility is the foundation by which love manifests.”
“I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.”

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