All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.
Gustave Le BonOne of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
Gustave Le BonThe precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called in question.
Gustave Le Bon