crowds

The future belongs to crowds.

Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

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 has many heads but no brains.

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!

It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!