“A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.”
“Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its own, and is capable of anything except inteligent action and realistic thinking. Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”
“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
“I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly.""I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper.""Apparently I am.”