That is always our problem, not how to get control of people, but how all together we can get control of a situation.

The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.