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

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

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

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

80% of results come from 20% of effort/time

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

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes

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

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

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