Don DeLillo Quotes

When people come together in large numbers they become aware of their strength.

I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

It's usually good news when people call collectively.

Mladenovic knows how to use the power of the crowd.

Time and time again, organizers have proved that when we work together, when we organize together, that we can win.

This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and have some impact.

It is not leaders who make movements; it is movements that make leaders.

“The Wisdom of Crowds” suggests that if enough bumbling people act in concert, they’ll find their way to a less bumbling place.

It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.

Ideas do not need weapons, to the extent that they can convince the great masses

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.

The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.