586 Quotes About Crowd

Самый необитаемый из всех островов - толпа.

Recognition that popularity of an idea has no bearing on its fitness for our collective survival frees us from the tyranny of the crowd, and let us have leaders again, who instead of finding out what is popular and espousing it, find out what is practical and pursue it. Nihilism ends the society of illusions by shattering the power of the Crowd.

الجمهور هو دائما أدنى مرتبة من من اﻹنسان المفرد فيما يخص الناحية العقلية والفكرية. ولكن من وجهة نظر العواطف واﻷعمال التي تثيرها هذه العواطف فإنه يمكن لهذا الجمهور أن يسير نحو اﻷفضل أو نحو اﻷسوأ. وكل شيء يعتمد على الطريقة التي يتم تحريكه بها.

...and I saw that it is one thing for a crowd, in an almost ecstatic frenzy, mistaking the laws of the devil for those of the Lord, to commit a massacre, but it is another thing for an individual to commit a crime in cold blood, with calculation, in silence.

As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.

The experience of the crowd is one of heartache and a thousand natural shocks.

Broadcasting is mainly not concerned with crowds, but with separate listeners, and . . . the ordinary tricks of rhetorical appeal do not usually succeed without the physical existence of a crowd.

Но видишь ли, сын, когда ты станешь постарше, ты будешь немного лучше понимать людей. Что бы там ни было, а всякая толпа состоит из людей. Вчера вечером мистер Канингем был частью толпы, но всё равно он оставался человеком. Всякая толпа во всяком маленьком южном городке состоит из людей, которых мы знаем, из самых обыкновенных людей, и это не очень для них лестно, не так ли?

What is it that happens in an inflation? The unit of money suddenly loses its identity. The crowd it is part of starts growing and, the larger it becomes, the smaller becomes the worth of each unit. The millions one always wanted are suddenly there in one's hand, but they are no longer millions in fact, but only in name.