#crowds

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#crowd #crowds #feel #focus #getting

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

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

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

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. ↗

— Bill Wyman

#i #i love #kings #love #play

I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger. ↗

— James Young

#because #crowds #even #i #i think

For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#city #crowds #looking #observation #people-watching

I like people-watching and fading into crowds. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#fading #i #into #like