68 Quotes by Gustave Le Bon

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.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

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

الجمهور هو دائما أدنى مرتبة من من اﻹنسان المفرد فيما يخص الناحية العقلية والفكرية. ولكن من وجهة نظر العواطف واﻷعمال التي تثيرها هذه العواطف فإنه يمكن لهذا الجمهور أن يسير نحو اﻷفضل أو نحو اﻷسوأ. وكل شيء يعتمد على الطريقة التي يتم تحريكه بها.

So far as the majority of their acts are considered, crowds display a singularly inferior mentality; yet there are other acts in which they appear to be guided by those mysterious forces which the ancients denominated destiny, nature, or providence, which we call the voices of the dead, and whose power it is impossible to overlook, although we ignore their essence. It would seem, at times, as if there were latent forces in the inner being of nations which serve to guide them.

إن العرب هم الذين علموا العالم كيف تتفق حرية الفكر مع استقامة الدين.

Jede Folgerung, die wir aus unseren Beobachtungen ziehen, ist meistens voreilig: Denn hinter den wahrgenommenen Erscheinungen gibt es solche, die wir undeutlich sehen, und hinter diesen wahrscheinlich noch andere, die wir überhaupt nicht erkennen.

ففي الجمهور يتحرر الأبله والجاهل والحسود من الإحساس من دونيتهم وعدم كفاءتهم وعجزهم, ويصبحون مجيشين بقوة عنيفة وعابرة, ولكن هائلة.

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