#crowd

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#crowd #individuality #internet #mob #technology

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#circumstances #crowd #forced #i #i can

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#audience #brass #cigarettes #connection #contact

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.' ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#absolutely #after #although #bunch #crowd

Never follow the crowd. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#follow #never

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #business #come #company #confined

Every crowd has a silver lining. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#every #lining #silver

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#crowded #goes #nobody #too

I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#being #crowd #crush #fans #few

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one. ↗

— Howard Dean

#crowd #everything #gonna #i #person