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

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.

History is a graveyard of aristocracies.

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