Quotes About Crowd

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

The shopping centre was busy, and there was a long line at O'Briens' counter, but despite the noise and the music she somehow felt isolated.

Is a stranger in a crowd less than human, just because you can't witness her inner life?

The church today has been compared to a football game with twenty-two people on the field in desperate need of rest, and fifty thousand people in the stands in desperate need of exercise.

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual, but that, from the point of view of feelings and of the acts these feelings provoke, the crowd may, according to circumstances, he better or worse than the individual. All depends on the nature of the suggestion to which the crowd is exposed.

The individualities in the crowd who might possess a personality sufficiently strong to resist the suggestion are too few in number to struggle against the current. At the utmost, they may be able to attempt a diversion by means of different suggestions. It is in this way, for instance, that a happy expression, an image opportunely evoked, have occasionally deterred crowds from the most bloodthirsty acts.

La multitud escucha siempre al hombre dotado de una fuerte voluntad. Ya que los individuos reunidos en masa pierden toda voluntad, se tornan instintivamente hacia aquel que la posee.

The gods and men who have kept their prestige for long have never tolerated discussion. For the crowd to admire, it must be kept at a distance.

Khi con ng??i n?m trong ?ám ?ông, k? ngu d?t và nhà bác h?c ??u không có kh? n?ng nh?n xét.

The psychological crowd is a provisional being formed of heterogeneous elements, which for a moment are combined, exactly as the cells which constitute a living body form by their reunion a new being which displays characteristics very different from those possessed by each of the cells singly.

An accident which should have caused the death of only five hundred instead of five thousand persons, but on the same day and in public, as the outcome of an accident appealing strongly to the eye, by the fall, for instance, of the Eiffel Tower, would have produced, on the contrary, an immense impression on the imagination of the crowd.

The disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning of feelings and ideas in an identical direction by means of suggestion and contagion, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

The crowd state and the domination of crowds is equivalent to the barbarian state, or to a return to it.

When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse to different expedients. The principal of them are three in number and clearly defined—affirmation, repetition, and contagion. Their action is somewhat slow, but its effects, once produced, are very lasting.

The CASTE represents the highest degree of organisation of which the crowd is susceptible.

?üphesiz kalabal?klar, bir inanc?n yahut bir fikrin zaferi için kolayca canlar?n? fedaya kadar gidebilirler. Hemen hemen ekmeksiz ve silahs?z olarak Haçl? Seferleri esnas?nda oldu?u gibi, bir ilah?n mezar?n? tekrar ele geçirmek için, yahut 93'te oldu?u gibi vatan topraklar?n? savunmak için, harekete getirilirler. Elbette bu kahramanl?klar biraz ?uursuzdur, fakat tarih böyle kahramanl?klarla yap?l?r.

An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.