If you’re ridin’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.
Crowd Quotes
They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings. The courage, the composure, […]
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.
“It’s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.” “But suppose there are two mobs?” suggested Mr. Snodgrass. “Shout with the largest,” replied Mr. Pickwick.
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of physical over-crowding induces violence.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
We have been honored by a visit from Col. Boone, the first settler of Kentucky; he lately spent two weeks with us – The colonel cannot live without being in the woods. He goes a hunting twice a year to the remotest wilderness he can reach; and hires a man to go with him, whom […]
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless […]
