Gustave Le Bon Quotes

“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.”

“Don't let the crowd ruin your true purpose in life. You can never please everyone in the crowd and your positive inner-self at the same time. It is either you are for crowd mentality or with the positive voices of your inner-self.”

“How do I think different from the Crowd??I just watch different stuff, different from the crowd this put's me in problems which are different than the crowd Problems!”

“The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one, no one at all, is excluded, except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd. To become a crowd, to collect a crowd about one, is on the contrary to affirm the distinctions of human life. The most well-meaning person who talks about these distinctions can easily offend an individual. But then it is not the crowd which possesses power, influence, repute, and mastery over men, but it is the invidious distinctions of human life which despotically ignore the single individual as the weak and impotent, which in a temporal and worldly interest ignore the eternal truth- the single individual.”

“Instead of always following the crowd, why not aim to become an unstoppable positive force for the crowd to follow?”

“Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.”

“In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.”

“Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!”

“The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.”

“Life is too short to be sharing its precious moments with the crowd.”