Crowds Quotes

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

The 'hottest bar in town,' to me, means high energy.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

I'm very comfortable speaking to millions of people, but not comfortable in a small, intimate social setting. Like cocktail hour. I get very panicky.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

I'm terrible with big parties.

I don't like to go to parties.

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

There is nothing more dangerous than debate in a crowd.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

As a member of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and now Prophets of Rage I'm pretty used to coming on stage and there's a full house.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

To address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.

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