The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettMots clés intelligence people crowds mob-rule mobs
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Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.
Chinua AchebeMots clés christianity religion church crowds
To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.
A.E. CoppardI do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
Flannery O'ConnorMots clés music crowds choruses shouting choirs human-voice
I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but sadly unavoidable irritant. With both Malema and the vuvuzela, their importance is far overstated. Malema: South Africa's Robert Mugabe? I think not. The vuvuzela: an archetypal symbol of 'African culture?' For African civilisation's sake, I seriously hope not.
Both are getting far too much airtime than they deserve. Both have thrust themselves on to the world stage through a combination of hot air and raucous bluster. Both amuse and enervate in roughly equal measure. And both are equally harmless in and of themselves — though in Malema's case, it is the political tendency that he represents, and the right-wing interests that lie behind his diatribes that is dangerous. With the vuvu I doubt if there are such nefarious interests behind the scenes; it may upset the delicate ears of the middle classes, both here and at the BBC, but I suspect that South Africa's democracy will not be imperilled by a mass-produced plastic horn.
Mots clés politics nationalism democracy africa civilisation media culture fascism south-africa attention atmosphere crowds bbc 2010 robert-mugabe culture-of-africa 2010-fifa-world-cup alarmism association-football culture-of-south-africa julius-malema right-wingers vuvuzelas
For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.
Richard CallandMots clés soccer atmosphere crowds 2010-fifa-world-cup association-football vuvuzelas
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
Charles MackayWherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.
Rachel CohnMots clés crowds
Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..
Charles MackayThe mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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