Books Quote 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…

— Gustave Le Bon

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.”

— Gustave Le Bon

“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

“Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity…

— Gustave Le Bon