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Traits of crowds such as impulsiveness and incapacity to reason are almost always seen in women, savages and children
Drawn from what Gustave Le Bon said
What Gustave Le Bon actually said
- Gustave Le Bon French social psychologist (1841 to 1931)
It will be remarked that among the special characteristics of crowds there are several—such as impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgment and of the critical spirit, the exaggeration of the sentiments, and others besides—which are almost always observed in beings belonging to inferior forms of evolution—in women, savages, and children, for instance.
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↗The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895; English translation, 1896)gutenberg.org
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