Gustave Le Bon Quotes
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.
The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.
The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.
From the intellectual point of view an abyss may exist between a great mathematician and his boot maker, but from the point of view of character the difference is most often slight or non-existent
