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“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts ...”
“Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you could...”
“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”
“As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”
“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 w...”
“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”
“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,...”
“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.”
“The future belongs to crowds.”
“Its relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.”
“Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!”
“In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.”
“The mob has many heads but no brains.”
“A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.”
“Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.”
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
“When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.”
“Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.”
“The time when most of all you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.”
