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> [“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-masses-have-never-thirsted-after-truth-they-turn-aside-from/)

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## More by Gustave Le Bon

> [“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/a-civilization-when-the-moment-has-come-for-crowds-to-acquire-a-high/)

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> [“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-masses-have-never-thirsted-after-truth-they-turn-aside-from/)

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> [All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/all-the-civilizations-we-know-have-been-created-and-directed-by-small/)

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> [ “To the Jacobins of this epoch \[the French Revolution\], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/to-the-jacobins-of-this-epoch-the-french-revolution-as-well-as-to/)

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> [The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-images-evoked-by-words-being-independent-of-their-sense-they-vary/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/to-lose-time-in-the-manufacture-of-cut-and-dried-constitutions-is-in/)

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> [Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/are-the-worst-enemies-of-society-those-who-attack-it-or-those-who-do/)

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> [“If one destroyed in museums and libraries, if one hurled down on the flagstones before the churches all the works and all the monuments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/if-one-destroyed-in-museums-and-libraries-if-one-hurled-down-on-the/)

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> [“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/from-the-primary-school-till-he-leaves-the-university-a-young-man/)

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> [The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-precise-moment-at-which-a-great-belief-is-doomed-is-easily/)

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> [“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/the-work-of-a-crowd-is-always-inferior-whatever-its-nature-to-that-of/)

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> [“Expressions such as infamous capital, vile exploiters, the admirable working man, the socialisation of wealth, &c., always produce the same effect, although already somewhat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/expressions-such-as-infamous-capital-vile-exploiters-the-admirable/)

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> [“Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/instead-of-preparing-men-for-life-french-schools-solely-prepare-them/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/when-however-it-is-proposed-to-imbue-the-mind-of-a-crowd-with-ideas/)

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> [“Victims of the delusion that equality and liberty are the better assured by the multiplication of laws, nations daily consent to put up with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-le-bon/victims-of-the-delusion-that-equality-and-liberty-are-the-better/)

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