Quote by Vilfredo Pareto
"The human tendency to rationalize is so powerful that people will defend any position once adopted."
More from Vilfredo Pareto
"Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself."
"The curve of the wealth of wealthy individuals shows the same pattern as the curve of the wealth of nations."
"History is a graveyard of aristocracies."
"The present state of society is the combined result of past human actions and present human choices."