Gustave Le Bon

The Crowd; study of the popular mind

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    “The decisions with which we have been so reproached,” he says, “Were not disired by us two days, a single day before they were taken: it was the crisis and nothing else that gave rise to them.” Nothing can be more accurate.
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    When parliamentary assemblies reach a certain pitch of excitement they become identical with ordinary heterogeneous crowds, and their sentiments in consequence present the peculiarity of being always extreme
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    Crowds instinctively recognise in men of energy and conviction the masters they are always in need of.
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    this peculiar style of eloquence has ever been of sovereign effect in all assemblies. In times of crisis its power is still further accentuated.
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    The affirmation is never too violent, the declamation never too threatening.
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    It is all to the interest of the leaders to indulge in the most improbable exaggerations.
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    should be aware, in particular, of the fascinating influence of words, phrases, and images
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    As soon as the danger was passed the parliamentary world forgot in the same instant its gratitude and its fright.”
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    soon as the danger was passed the parliamentary world forgot in the same instant its gratitude and its fright.”
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    Men forming a crowd cannot do without a master, whence it results that the votes of an assembly only represent, as a rule, the opinions of a small minority.
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