Crowd Mentality Quotes

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered but schooled.

The court of public opinion is open 24 hours a day.

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

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

… the gallows, surrounded by a witless crowd with an insatiable blood lust …

Here is a man with the greatest intellect in Europe, and yet he debases it by simply following majorities and the crowd.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

. . .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.

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.