Quotes About Crowds

Hordes of people on the street, lighted Christmas trees sparkling high on penthouse balconies and complacent Christmas music floating out of shops, and weaving in and out of crowds I had a strange feeling of being already dead

New York City without

He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds.

I get enough of crowds even when they're happy... if they're scared they're either going to crucify somebody or worship him

Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not be swayed by anything himself; the anticipation of the spectacle of fear by one who was terrified at nothing. The vice of a man who had become inhuman by losing his human greed.

Crowds cannot make right what God has declared to be wrong.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...