Mark Twain Quotes

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.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

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

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

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

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

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.

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.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

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

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

A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

Crowds create illusions.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.