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

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted..

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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 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….

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….

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

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….