May’s Reviews > The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind > Status Update

Plenty of racism, sexism, and elitism here; not very much science. Still, there are a bunch of interesting opinions here and there. Thankfully this is a short book. Will get it over with soon.

"It is crowds rather than isolated individuals that may be induced to run the risk of death to secure the triumph of a creed or an idea...Such heroism is without doubt somewhat unconscious, but it is of such heroism that history is made. Were peoples only to be credited with the great actions performed in cold blood, the annals of the world would register but few of them."