Marti Noxon 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.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

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.

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.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

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.

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.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

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.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

When like-minded people deliberate as an organized group, the general opinion shifts towards extreme versions of their common beliefs.

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.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

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.

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.

An audience can become a mob very easily.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.