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

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.

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.

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.

Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really

Everybody is a dumb blonde at heart.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies