Crowds Quote by Gustave Le Bon Download Open image “In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.” — Gustave Le Bon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crowds Mother Mother wit Parenting Stupidity Wit
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is. — Will Self Copy Share Image
The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but… — Brandon Boyd 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 their psychology… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Why don't I like crowds? I suppose the worst possible thing I could say is that I don't like people, and that crowds are… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone. — Charles Bukowski 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 seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share
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 possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to. The people may kill, burn, ravage, commit the most frightening… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share
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 of art that religions have inspired, what would remain of the great dreams of humanity? To give to men that portion of hope and illusion without which they cannot live, such is the reason for the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share
“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
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
When the American people saw the LA riots and crowds of Blacks cheering O.J. Simpson (who was acquitted by the almost all Black jury),… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come out of the audience and go, "Hey man, you should have cut 20 minutes. That wasn't so good." And I'll just obsess on that one guy. After all this love, I'll obsess on him and want… — Wayne White Copy Share
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
I want people to just be paying attention even if they're not necessarily laughing at something, or if it takes them a while to get something, I don't mind that. If half the crowd gets the joke and the other half is sitting there scratching their heads, that's just as good for me if I like the joke, because I… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share
