Neal Katyal Quotes

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

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

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have any criminal motives. Not what is usually understood by "criminal motives." He wanted to go along with the rest. He wanted to say "we," and going-along-with-the-rest and wanting-to-say-we like this were quite enough to make the greatest of all crimes possible. The Hitlers, after all, really aren't the ones who are typical in this kind of situation--they'd be powerless without the support of others.

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

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

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.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

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.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

In wartime the herd instinct rise …

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

Mladenovic knows how to use the power of the crowd.

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.