Gustave Le Bon (1895)
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
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One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
- Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A study of the popular mind (1986)
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One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.
- Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A study of the popular mind (1986)
For all those people that are living in a nation run by a demagogue that poisons the well of knowledge and fosters a following on orthodoxy based on baseless claims, beware!
