Jay Asher Quotes

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

People tend to take more risks in groups than alone. For these reasons, the law has always treated conspiracy harshly.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.

Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

There are idiots in every crowd.

Men go crazy in congregation. They only get better one by one.