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Civilisations have so far been created by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds, which are only powerful for destruction
Drawn from what Gustave Le Bon said
What Gustave Le Bon actually said
- Gustave Le Bon French social psychologist (1841 to 1931)
Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction.
Where this was said
↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org
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