Crowd Quotes

“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”
― Raubin Chaudhary

“Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology.”
― René Girard

“On your way to accomplish greatness, you will hear a lot of noise. Listen to your inner voice and never let the distraction of the crowd discolour your poise.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“الجمهور هو دائما أدنى مرتبة من من اﻹنسان المفرد فيما يخص الناحية العقلية والفكرية. ولكن من وجهة نظر العواطف واﻷعمال التي تثيرها هذه العواطف فإنه يمكن لهذا الجمهور أن يسير نحو اﻷفضل أو نحو اﻷسوأ. وكل شيء يعتمد على الطريقة التي يتم تحريكه بها.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Crowds don’t think; they act; they don’t produce ideas, they produce actions!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“La folla è una creatura lenta e un po' idiota, di gran lunga meno intelligente degli individui che la compongono.”
― Ian McEwan, Black Dogs

“Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“When the crowd follows you, their noise can misguide you. When you follow the crowd, their direction may mislead you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Let's go to the Next Level

“Whenever you enter the crowds, keep your own personality, keep your own behaviour, keep your own mind; stay as yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Up to now these thoroughgoing destructions of a worn-out civilisation have constituted the most obvious task of the masses. It is not indeed to-day merely that this can be traced. History tells us, that from the moment when the moral forces on which a civilisation rested have lost their strength, its final dissolution is brought about by those unconscious and brutal crowds known, justifiably enough, as barbarians. Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules, discipline, a passing from the instinctive to the rational state, forethought for the future, an elevated degree of culture—all of them conditions that crowds, left to themselves, have invariably shown themselves incapable of realising. In consequence of the purely destructive nature of their power crowds act like those microbes which hasten the dissolution of enfeebled or dead bodies. When the structure of a civilisation is rotten, it is always the masses that bring about its downfall. It is at such a juncture that their chief mission is plainly visible, and that for a while the philosophy of number seems the only philosophy of history.”
― Le Bon

“One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Do what is uncommon; do it in the uncommon way”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Khác với lúc đứng riêng rẽ một mình, cái vô danh trong đám đông đem lại cho người ta một sự an toàn về cảm giác được bảo vệ nhất định”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang, Bức Xúc Không Làm Ta Vô Can

“As Grandfather used to say, 'In a crowd, everyone plays follow-the leader, even when they don't know who's leading.”
― Ruskin Bond, Funny Side Up

“The greatest crowd is not the large number of people who know nothing about where they are going but rather a single man who knows where he is going on the right path!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“What it takes is the passion to lead and the commitment to that passion through a lifetime. A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Trong đám đông, con người dễ đánh mất bản thân.”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang

“Đám đông cho họ một bản sắc, cho họ một nơi để thuộc về.”
― Đặng Hoàng Giang, Bức Xúc Không Làm Ta Vô Can

“The experience of the crowd is one of heartache and a thousand natural shocks.”
― Michael Bounds

“I never met anyone. But for the little crowd at the bus stop, the whole town seemed to be empty. I think that was why I attached myself to the queue.”
― C. S. Lewis