Crowds Quotes - Page 35

• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Choices, Statistics

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

  Julie Doucet

  Art, Drawing, People

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• People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when people get together in big crowds they're stupid. They turn into sheep, then you have major situations.

  Brandon Boyd

  Smart, Stupid, Sheep

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• You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

  Ruud Gullit

  Home, Funny Things, Play

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• Phil Robertson and his family are great citizens of the State of Louisiana. The politically correct crowd is tolerant of all viewpoints, except those they disagree with. I don’t agree with quite a bit of stuff I read in magazine interviews or see on TV. In fact, come to think of it, I find a good bit of it offensive. But I also acknowledge that this is a free country and everyone is entitled to express their views. In fact, I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

  Bobby Jindal

  Country, Thinking, Views

  FaceBook post by Bobby Jindal from Dec 19, 2013

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• I’m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I’m right there with our founding fathers. I’m a patriot and a Christian, and I’m moving forth with what they started. But now it’s gotten to where I’m some kind of nut or Bible beater.
  I say, so be it. I’ll still go across the country spreading God’s Word, like I’ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. It’s what makes me happy, happy, happy.

  Phil Robertson

  Christian, Country, Father

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• But Fate does iron wedges drive,
  And always crowds itself betwixt.

  Andrew Marvell

  Fate, Iron, Doe

  Andrew Marvell, Bill Hutchings (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.47, Psychology Press

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• I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.

  Anna Nalick

  Naked, Diaries, Causes

  Song: Breathe, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005

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• Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Hatred, Depth, Lambs

  C.J. Mahaney (2011). “Christ Our Mediator: Finding Passion at the Cross”, p.66, Multnomah

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• There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people, jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Jumping, People, Drunk

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Fans, Three, Generations

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• Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

  Jeff Buckley

  Fighting, Walking Dead, Despite

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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Independent, Men, Organization

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• Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Jesus, Sex

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• It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

  Elias Canetti

  Men, Opposites, Feelings

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• There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

  Rod Carew

  Cheer, Fun, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

  Tracy McGrady

  Guy, Standing Out, I Can

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• A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Differences, People, Musician

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• A good DJ is always looking at the crowd, seeing what they’re like, seeing whether it’s working; communicating with them. Smiling at them. And a bad DJ is always looking down at what they’re doing all the time and just doing their thing that they practiced in their bedroom

  Fatboy Slim

  Smile, Communication, Bedroom

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• Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Beauty, People

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• The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

  Thomas Nagel

  Choices, Acting, Three

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

  Kim Clijsters

  Support, Behind You, Behinds

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• The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Thinking, Think For Yourself

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.20, Crown Business

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• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

  Peter Thiel

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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