Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.
It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd
I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.
But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
Never take direction for your personal life from a crowd.
Seven out of 10 Americans know the country's headed in the wrong direction, that in a very real sense that this is a clear choice between change in the status quo and I've always been telling crowds, the other side says if you like your status quo you can keep it.
During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. ' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.
It's easy to be drowned out by the crowd, but to thine own self be true, say I, no matter what everybody says, no matter what the popular vibe is.
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would choke the spirit of joy out of our hearts. He made the great open places for the people who want to be alone with him and talk to him, away from the crowds that kill all reverence. And I think that he is glad at times to have us forget our cares and responsibilities that we may be nearer him-as Jesus was when he crept away into the wilderness to pray.
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.
It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.