To the Jacobins of this epoch [the French Revolution], as well as to those of our times, this popular entity constitutes a superior personality possessing attributes peculiar to the gods of never having to answer for their actions and never making a mistake. Their wishes must be humbly acceded to. The people may kill, burn, ravage, commit the most frightening cruelties, glorify their hero today and throw him into the gutter tomorrow, it is all the same; the politicians will not cease to vaunt the people's virtues and to bow to their every decision.
Gustave Le BonTag: people crowds proletariat french-revolution jacobin-politics the-masses will-of-the-people
A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.
Gustave Le BonTag: civilization indifference decline crowds the-masses
Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: crowds
By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.
Christopher HitchensTag: crowds hissing barracking
A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual. This is due to the fact that, when many people gather together to share one common emotion, the total psyche emerging from the group is below the level of the individual psyche. If it is a very large group, the collective psyche will be more like the psyche of an animal, which is the reason why the ethical attitude of large organizations is always doubtful. The psychology of a large crowd inevitably sinks to the level of mob psychology. If, therefore, I have a so-called collective experience as a member of a group, it takes place on a lower level of consciousness than if I had the experience by myself alone.
C.G. JungTag: consciousness ethics individual psyche mob crowds groups collective
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
Edwin Way TealeTag: nature solitude secrets thoughts crowds
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.
Isaac AsimovTag: crowds urban-life population-density
A lonely man with the truths is more crowded than the crowds without the truths!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: crowds
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