best quotations about
Crowds |
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Quotations
 | Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 68 likes |
 | The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 7 likes |
 | If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 4 likes |
 | The Mob has many heads but no Brains. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Which is worth more, a crowd of thousands, or your own genuine solitude? — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | Freedom does not like crowds. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 2 likes |
 | Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 2 likes |
| The sense of responsibility, which always controls individuals, is lost in a crowd. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 2 likes |
 | It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
 | Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
| The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
 | Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
 | When many gather together, people become small. They are like Milton’s devils who are forced to become pygmies in order to enter Pandemonium. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 1 likes |
 | The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 1 likes |
| Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 1 likes |
| All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 1 likes |
 | A multitude of people and yet a solitude. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | No one goes there nowadays, it’s too crowded. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 5 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | One is no one, two is a company, three is a crowd, four is a fair. Είς ουδείς, δύο πολλοί, τρεις όχλος, τέσσαρες πανήγυρις. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 5 likes |
 | Crowds with foolishness is a great evil. Συν όχλω αμαθία πλείστον κακόν. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | Two's company, but three's a crowd. 5 likes |
