Gustave Le Bon

Neither the name given to opinions nor deceptive adaptations alter the essence of things.

to identify amid the moving flux of opinions the part determined by general beliefs

The only important classification to be made of heterogeneous crowds, apart from that based on racial considerations, is to separate them into anonymous crowds, such as street crowds, and crowds not anonymous-deliberative assemblies and juries, for example. The sentiment of responsibility absent from crowds of the first description and developed in those of the second often gives a very different tendency to their respective acts