Crowd Quotes

I just don’t go out. People in large groups, it triggers my agoraphobia.

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.

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.

By the mere fact that he forms part of an organized crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilization. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian – that is, a creature acting by instinct. He possesses the spontaneity, the violence, the ferocity, and also the […]

Toots Shore’s restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.

In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

I had not been two years at the licks before a damned Yankee came, and settled down within a hundred miles of me!

What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

If it has to choose who will be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.