Jason Calacanis Quotes

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

I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

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

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

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.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

When a man can take a poll and tell what everybody is thinking, that means nobody is really thinking anymore.

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

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.

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

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

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

People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.