Sting Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.

As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

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

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

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

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.