The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. C…

- Gustave Le Bon

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire…

- Gustave Le Bon

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet crea…

- Gustave Le Bon

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

- Gustave Le Bon

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

- Gustave Le Bon

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestio…

- Gustave Le Bon

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

- Gustave Le Bon

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

- Gustave Le Bon

Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

- Gustave Le Bon