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 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.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

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

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

Well? Is it true? Did she?""Did she what?""You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?

We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.

If I am too busy to read The Bible ... am I too busy?

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.

Mike Knox, I am also getting real sick of this! Your problem isn't me staying away from your girl... Your problem is your girl staying away from me!

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.