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Nothing is more fatal to a people than a mania for great reforms, however excellent they may appear in theory
Drawn from what Gustave Le Bon said
What Gustave Le Bon actually said
- Gustave Le Bon French social psychologist (1841 to 1931)
Nature has recourse at times to radical measures, but never after our fashion, which explains how it is that nothing is more fatal to a people than the mania for great reforms, however excellent these reforms may appear theoretically.
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↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org
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