Author of quotes: Gustave Le Bon

So, if our extreme nervousness, our great tendency to discontent with the existing ones, the idea that the new government will make our lot happier, lead us to the fact that we are constantly changing our institutions, then the great voice of our extinct ancestors guiding us condemns us to that, that we only change words and appearance. The unconscious power of the soul of our race is such that we do not even notice the illusion of which we are victims.

It would be possible to live without truth, but there is no such person who would agree to live without illusions.

The crowd needs a leader. The leader is not necessarily the smartest, because the mind creates doubt.

The crowd is not directed to those who give her the evidence, and to those who gives it the enticing illusion.

The transition from barbarism to civilization in pursuit of a dream, then - a gradual weakening and dying as soon as this dream will be lost - this is the life cycle of every nation.

The crowd has never sought for truth; she turns away from evidence, not popular with her, and prefers to worship the delusion, if delusion it attracted her. Who is able to enter the crowd astray, then he easily becomes a Lord; who seeks to reason with her, he is always the victim.

If to destroy museums and libraries and to break stones on the porch all the works and artistic monuments, inspired by religion, what would remain of the great dreams of humanity? To give people hope and illusion without which they could not exist - that is the purpose of gods, heroes, and poets. Science tried to perform this task for fifty years. But in their hearts, hungry for ideal, she was undoing what she did not dare to promise more and not able to lie.

Need for centuries for the formation of any political regime, and similarly takes centuries to change it. Companies by themselves can be neither good nor bad, and those are good for some people at this moment, may be totally unfit for him another time. Therefore, it is not in the power of the people to change these institutions in fact; it can only be through violent revolutions to change the name of the institution, but their essence will not change.

Ideas are daughters of past and future mother and always slaves of time!

Time, raised mountains from grains of sand and raised to the degree of human dignity an obscure cell of geological eras.

Instead of preparing people for life, the school prepares them only to engage in social positions where you can succeed, not showing the slightest initiative and acting independently. At the bottom of the stairs such that the educational system creates a whole army of dissatisfied with their lot proletarians, ready to outrage, at the top of the frivolous bourgeoisie, skeptical and gullible, superstitious supply the confidence in the providential power of the state against which, however, she is constantly frontire, and always blamed the government for their own mistakes, while at the same time, she resolutely unable to do anything without the intervention of the government.

Gods, heroes, and dogmas are imposed, but not disputed; they disappear as soon as they are subjected to discussion.

No matter who is in front of you: a crowd of academics or a crowd of water-carriers. Both the crowd.