“When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse to different expedients. The principal of them are three in number and clearly defined—affirmation, repetition, and… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their… — 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
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