“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 5 (p. 42)
“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.”
Act III.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
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