"There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with."

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Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”

Gerald Stanley Lee

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