"The Revolt of the Masses" Quotes

Life is a drama of possibilities.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Civilization is above all else the will to live in common.

The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity.

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select.

The mass-man sees in the state an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the state is something of his own.

The mass is the new barbarian.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

The essence of man is to be, not to have.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.