#crowds

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence #mob-rule #mobs #people #intelligence

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. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#people #jealousy

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#choruses #crowds #human-voice #music #shouting

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#crowds #decline #indifference #the-masses #respect

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. ↗

— Steve Burns

#crowds #hermit #i #like #make

The future belongs to crowds. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#crowds #future

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#blindness #crowds #dark #drew #eyes

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#been #crowds #happy #hey #high

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#big #crowds #dark #heights #i

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#crowds #front #great #i #knew