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 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.

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Since I was a boy - born into a farming family in Bonaire, GA - I've had agriculture running through my veins.

As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.