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Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

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Gustave Le Bon

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Devoured, Offered, People, Psychology, Solution, Sphinx
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

Attempts, Destroy, Illusion, Supply, Truth, Victim

A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first. . . A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts. . . . Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.

Real, Thinking, Mind, Connection, Scarcely

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Civilization, People, Intellectual, Crowds

We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

Mean, Ideas, Personality, Acts, Forming, Disappearance

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

Political, Role, Roles, Scholar, Statesman, Use
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