#crowd

A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#crowds #decline #indifference #the-masses #respect

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? ↗

— Christine Feehan

#crowd #lonely #trouble

I was never part of the crowd. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#i #never #part

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#because #being #believe #crowd #immense

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#appearing #around #attention #cake #child

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#dark #earth #hall #heaven #her

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#black #busy #crowd #flyers #handing

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. ↗

— Steve Burns

#crowds #hermit #i #like #make

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#good #good ideas #housing #ideas #implement

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#certain point #cooler #crowd #desperately #fit