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

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

- Gustave Le Bon

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

- Gustave Le Bon

One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a ce…

- Gustave Le Bon

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

- 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

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

- Gustave Le Bon

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

- 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