Why is a fanatical crowd capable of anything bad but not the best? How a psychological crowd she fit? What did she little to do with a human aggregate together at random? Who and what is it composed? How does she react to requests? Who are its leaders? How do they get their way? Released in 1921, this important book of psychology and sociology become a reference and a classic, brilliantly answers all these questions and many others by removing number of handling mechanisms, indoctrination and propaganda. Le Bon illustrates with many examples from history (peak and fall of the Roman Empire, French Revolution, Napoleon, Baker, Lesseps and others ...) The contemporary reader may add a few dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Kim Il Jong other by saying that all these phenomena have considerable growth! Despite a relatively difficult subject, "The Psychology of Crowds" remains a fascinating book where the reader still learn a lot while remaining admiration for the delicacy of analysis, clarity of purpose and elegance of style. Quotes: "Crowds have opinions imposed, never reasoned opinions. " "The power of the crowd is the only force that nothing threatens and whose prestige that do grow. The age when we return will truly be the era of crowds. " "The divine right of crowds will replace the divine right of kings. " "The crowds have that power to destroy. " "The crowds are unable to have any opinions other than those imposed on them. " "We led the crowds seeking what can impress and seduce. " "In crowds it is stupidity and not the mind that accumulates. " "The crowd can only be of excessive credulity. " "The Jacobins of the Terror were as fundamentally religious and Catholic Inquisition, and their cruel ardor derived from the same source. " "The crowds have such a thirst to obey they submit instinctively to who declares himself their master. " "The crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated man. " "It is the intelligence that guides the world, but the guide from afar." "Modern man is increasingly invaded by indifference. "
