A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were no…

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

She was one of those people who say 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is he…

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.