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

"A crowd is a servile flock that is incapable of ever doing without a master."

"In spite of all scientific demonstrations it continues on the increase. Its principal strength lies in the fact that it is championed by minds sufficiently ignorant of things as they are in reality to venture boldly to promise mankind happiness."

"Peoples are governed by their character, and all institutions which are not intimately modelled on that character merely represent a borrowed garment, a transitory disguise."

"Peoples are governed by their character, and all institutions which are not intimately modelled on that character merely represent a borrowed garment, a transitory disguise."

"It is precisely crowds that cling the most tenaciously to traditional ideas and oppose their being changed with the most obstinacy."

:Intolerance and fanaticism are the necessary accompaniments of the religious sentiment. They are inevitable displayed by those who believe themselves in possession of the secret of earthly or eternal happiness. These two characteristics are to be found in all men grouped together when they are inspired by a conviction of any kind."

"To know the art of impressing the imagination of crowds is to know at the same time the art of governing them."