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Quote of Gustave Le Bon - By the mere fact that he...


Biography - Gustave Le Bon:

French polymath.
Born: 1841 - Died: 1931
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

By the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Par le seul fait qu'il fait partie d'une foule l'homme descend donc de plusieurs degrés sur l'échelle de la civilisation.

German
Allein durch die Tatsache, Glied einer Masse zu sein, steigt der Mensch also mehrere Stufen von der Leiter der Kultur hinab.




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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

The first and fundamental resistance is that of the spirit. It means resisting the intimidation of any lie asserted as truth, the contagion of any collective intoxication.




Quotes

Quotes for: Civilization


We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.





Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.





Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.





While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.





At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.





Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit – to the ‚conquest‘ of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.







Quotes

Gustave Le Bon also said...


The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.





To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.





The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.





For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.





No need to be praised when you are sure of yourself. He who seeks praise doubts his own worth.





Competence without authority is as powerless as authority without competence.












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