#mass mentality

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"The inferior man is exceedingly mistrustful. He does not trust the thing that is in small houses, in a few individuals, but believes in great gatherings, in a great number of statistics." — C.G. Jung

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"The morality of a crowd is lower than the morality of each individual in the crowd. A crowd is overpowering naturally, since thousands are more than one, then one is overpowered; and to be overpowered or to overpower the others is inferior. You are caught in inferiority and you are inferior too."

— C.G. Jung, 18 January 1939

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"Nothing welds people so much together as vice, a common wrong-doing. If you can do something collectively to your neighbor you are in a marvelous state. In the church therefore, it is part of their life to fight their enemies. For instance, when the church was threatened with falling to pieces, they put up those stakes in Spain and burned a hundred thousand heretics, and that was good for the church. They had done away with that beast outside, and so they felt well inside." — C.G. Jung

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"Anybody in his sound senses must know that the mob is just mob. It is inferior, consisting of inferior types of the human species." — C.G. Jung

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"When you are in the herd everybody has a good conscience, because whatever you do there you do with others; even if you do the most appalling things it is perfectly O.K., because everybody is doing it."

— Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar

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“Every step forward along the path of individuation is achieved only at the cost of suffering.”

— C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East