“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“To lose time in the manufacture of cut-and-dried constitutions is, in consequence, a puerile task, the useless labour of an ignorant rhetorician. Necessity and… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it? — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.” — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
