"Where the many are, there is security; what the many believe must of course be true; what the many want must be worth striving for, and necessary, and therefore good. In the clamor of the many there lies the power to snatch wish-fulfillments by force; sweetest of all, however is that gentle and painless slipping back into the kingdom of childhood, in the paradise of prenatal care, into happy-go-luckiness and irresponsibility. All the thinking and looking after are done from the top; to all questions there is an answer, and for all needs the necessary provision is made. The infantile dream state of the mass man is so unrealistic that he never thinks to ask who is paying for this paradise. The balancing of accounts is left to a higher political or social authority, which welcomes the task, for its power is thereby increased; and the more power it has, the weaker and more helpless the individual becomes."
"The suffocating power of the masses is paraded before our eyes in one form or another every day in the newspapers, and the insignificance of the individual is rubbed into him so thoroughly that he loses all hope of making himself heard. The outworn ideas of liberte, egalite, fraternite, help him not at all, as he can direct this appeal only to his executioners, the spokesmen of the masses."
"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
"To this question there is a positive answer only when the individual is willing to fulfill the demands of rigorous self-examination and self-knowledge."
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