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

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

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

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

Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Sentiment has never been vanquished in its eternal conflict with reason

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

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence.

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

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.

The explanation is that their science is only a very attenuated form of our universal ignorance.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian - that is, a creature acting by instinct.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.

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