Crowd Quotes

“The crowd could not know that they were cheering but somehow they did, somehow they understood that the circle between death-worship and death-wish had been completed for another year and the crowd went completely loopy, convulsing itself in greater and greater paroxysms.”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“You have doubtless read Trotter’s Instincts of the Herd in War and Peace, Mister Bond. Well, I am by nature and predilection a wolf and I live by a wolf’s laws. Naturally the sheep describe such a person as a “criminal”. ‘The fact, Mister Bond,’ The Big Man continued after a pause, ‘that I survive and indeed enjoy limitless success, although I am alone against countless millions of sheep, is attributable to the modern techniques I described to you on the occasion of our last talk, and to an infinite capacity for taking pains. Not dull, plodding pains, but artistic, subtle pains. And I find, Mister Bond, that it is not difficult to outwit sheep, however many of them there may be, if one is dedicated to the task and if one is by nature an extremely well-equipped wolf.”
― Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die

“No matter which country you live in, go in the direction the mind points, not in the direction of the crowd, because the crowd destroys thought, creates fog, you cannot know the right direction, you cannot see the right path!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A panic that has seized on a few sheep will soon extend to the whole flock.”
― Gustave Le Bon, Gyan Publishing House The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“No veils, no aliases. No duty, no blame. These green woods are without thought, nameless are its denizens. They lead into a waking dream. A dream with nothing to dream. Nothing to conjure nor relate. No effort to pursue nor resist. To sleep among root and rock… Why harbour identity where there is none? What good governs here where you are nothing? Your recitals without audience, your words without paper. The clanless hermit conceives of his own visage twisted in the shady stream. He carves not hideous figures and faces from the kindling but burns it. He dances not with a head of sprig to impress the elves. A sage must emulate nature from which morality is neutered. Ethics are chaste fodder for undying pyres. That ongoing tumult beyond the forest’s edge shall be yours to lick up and knock over again and again if you so choose… Mankind invents and implies. The crowd accepts or denies. People are always begging pity or scorn from your kind.”
― Jacob H. Kyle, The Tedium Lies

“For a moment I had an inkling of what it might be like if instead of two people in the World there were thousands.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“And the tears that stream down my face
Could simply be misplaced rivers
Of the words I do not say
Beneath the roar of the crowd
Speaking in the words of a clock.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Prince of Chandeliers

“Consider how many conservatives are motivated by hatred of the wealthy or elites. They do not know who these elites are, and have never met them, which is why they cannot comprehend that these elites are simply getting wealthy by following the trend cascade.

Such “conservatives” talk about guillotines and revolutions as if these would solve the situation, forgetting that what got us into this situation was overthrowing our natural leaders and replacing them with the temporary favorites of the mob.

The people who succeed in this society do so by taking advantage of trends. If a lot of people believe something, there is money and power in it. Therefore, if you want to succeed, you repeat the dogma and intensify it without considering that it is true.

Nothing else explains why you suddenly have circus freaks walking the streets, working in government, and dominating what is left of your arts and culture. The elites, Freemasons, Jews, Bilderbergers, Davos, and Illuminati did not do this to you; you did it to yourselves.”
― Brett Stevens

“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original.
Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”
― Orison Swett Marden, He Who Thinks He Can

“It is not a good idea to follow the crowd, for he who follows blindly is blind himself.”
― Lita A. Barnes (MM)

“The Dark Cloud
Is a shove into a corridor that has a rough and tough crowd
Is an arrogant enemy that thinks they have the right to be proud
Is a promise that was made in front of other people that was loud
Is an evil deed that goes unpunished and is socially allowed”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“Whether reaching for fame or just fitting in with a crowd, let us not lose sight of those dearest to us and common sense.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“the masses … must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A study of the popular mind

“This power is due to the fact that the repeated statement is embedded in the long run in those profound regions of our unconscious selves in which the motives of our actions are forged.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A study of the popular mind

“The stranger and the crowd are the stutterer's nightmare.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“The most important occurrence within a crowd is the discharge. Before this the crowd does not actually exist; it is the discharge which creates it. This is the moment when all who belong to the crowd get rid of their differences and feel equal.”
― Elias Canetti , Crowds and Power

“کبھی کبھی تنہائی ہمیں صرف لوگوں کے ہجوم میں ملتی ہے۔ ویرانوں میں تو ہم اپنے سامنے مزید نمایاں ہو جاتے ہیں۔”
― Hashim Nadeem, Parizaad / پری زاد

“Life in a crowd is worse than a prison.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium

“The crowds have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from any evidence that is not to their preference, preferring to worship falsehood, if falisty seduces them.
Whoever can supply them with delusions becomes their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions becomes their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand among other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.”
― Gustave Le Bon, PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWDS - Le Bon

“The crowds have never thirsted after truth. They ignore any evidence that is not to their preference, preferring to worship falsehood, if falsity seduces them.
Whoever can supply them with delusions becomes their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions becomes their victim.”
― Gustave Le Bon, CROWD PSYCHOLOGY: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Causes (10 Books in One Volume): Classic Studies of Mass Persuasion, Social Contagion, and Public Opinion

“Just because it’s trending doesn’t mean it’s true”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The mind that dares to create something new must break away from the crowd.”
― Egbearor Favour

“The fool doesn’t lurk in the shadows; he stands at the front, speaks the loudest, and gathers the largest crowd.”
― Egbearor Favour

“Тепер же соціальні мережі дедалі менше схожі на відкриті місця для зустрічей і більше нагадують міські площі в пуританській Новій Англії 1720 року: менше вільного обміну ідеями, більше натовпу та акцій.”
― Ben Shapiro, The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

“You want to stand out in the crowd, yet you fear noise.”
― Lord Uzih

“Byliśmy takimi, jaki bywa tłum niezależnie od epoki i wieku: brutalni, żądni krwi, skłonni do poddania się przewodnictwu najgorszych.”
― Ernst Wiechert, Wälder und Menschen: Eine Jugend in Ostpreussen

“If you look at the world from a distance, you'll be looking at reality up close, because the world is so crowded, and when you're in the crowd, you can't see madness, because madness, like a stormy sea, tosses you from one place to another, and you can't really understand what's happening!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Falling into a crowd is the same as falling into a river; you are no longer yourself, you are part of the river, and you will behave as the river behaves! Once you enter the crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowd, just as a leaf falling into a river has no right to complain!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you surrender yourself to the crowd, you betray yourself, because the crowd rules you, and when you are ruled, that's when your freedom is gone, that is, you are gone, and who comes in your place? An uncertain fate determined by the herd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan