Crowd Madness Quotes

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

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

These other cities, soon as I walk out, they going crazy like I'm a boy band. But Houston people are chill. We can see Beyonce and be like, Aight cool.