Deontay Wilder Quotes

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

When your leader is misbehaving, it's very easy for other people to follow that.

A crowd is always impressed by the sum of its own number.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation.

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and unconscious feelings of rejection, then the health of these institutions seems far more vulnerable than we think.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.