Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself..

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….

The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for….

The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to th….

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry..

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the ph….

There are some people who imagine that they can disarm their enemy by complacent flattery. They are wrong. The world has always belonged to the stron….

If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everyth….

All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligar….

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed par….

The sentiment that is very inappropriately named equality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and ….

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms….

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but ….

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, s….

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to t….

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result th….

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….

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land..

Theories of "natural law" and the "law of nations" are another excellent example of discussions destitute of all exactness. [...] "Natural law" is si….

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true..

The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods.