Crowd
A crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting
Quotes
[edit]- A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no brains.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, an entry in 1747.
- In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.
- Robert M. Lindner, Must We Conform? (New York: Rinehart, 1956), p. 15
- Man and woman cease to be humans once they get lost into crowds.
- Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market
- Pristine river of lives is swallowed by the crowd - Human getting lost into humans.
- Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market
- A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart.
- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" (1980) - Severian, Chapter 31