Group Influence Quotes

It is easier to mislead many men than one.

If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

A few people with a clear agenda can make a big difference in government.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

Not all special interest groups are bad.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

. . .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.

I think legacies are most meaningful with the impressions that a person can leave on a group of people.

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.

I swear, guys in groups are capable of the stupidest things." "Like war," Kellan says, heaping napkins and ketchup packets onto her tray. "And jumping off rooftops." "And lighting their farts on fire," she says.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

I think being part of Pentatonix has helped my arrangement style a lot, and that's helped me expand myself.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

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

Islamist groups have gained influence at local and national level by playing the politics of identity and demanding for Muslims the 'right to be different.'

Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

The capacity to influence radical groups can diminish significantly once they are viewed as indispensable coalition partners and are able to intimidate the electorate with the authority of the state behind them.

All participants in politics want to impose as much of their morality on others as possible.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.