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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Book by Gustave Le Bon · 21 quotes · Crowds, Atheism, People

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“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. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”

“A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.”

“Şüphesiz kalabalıklar, bir inancın yahut bir fikrin zaferi için kolayca canlarını fedaya kadar gidebilirler. Hemen hemen ekmeksiz ve silahsız olarak Haçlı Seferleri esnasında olduğu gibi, bir ilahın mezarını tekrar ele geçirmek için, yahut 93'te olduğu gibi vatan topraklarını savunmak için, harekete getirilirler. Elbette bu kahramanlıklar biraz şuursuzdur, fakat tarih böyle kahramanlıklarla yapılır.”