Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination.
Crowd Quotes
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone – who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that’s all right. You don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
The pleasure of being in crowds is a mysterious expression of sensual joy in the multiplication of Number.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
