The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

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.

To catch any fish, give it what it eats.

Passion + Purpose = BLISS :)

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.

Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.