“A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.”
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
“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.”
“The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual becomes.”
“The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.”