Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.

It must be classed among those phenomena of a hypnotic order, which we shall shortly study. In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

Örneğin çocuk gördüğü bir şeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir şeyse, o zaman bu şeyi çocuğa getirmektense çocuğu ona götürmek daha doğru olur: O, bu uygulamadan yaşına göre bir sonuç çıkarır ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin başka hiçbir yolu yoktur.