Crowd

thumb|Crowd A crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting Quotes A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no brains. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, an entry in 1747. In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates—which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized. Robert M. Lindner, Must We Conform? (New York: Rinehart, 1956), p. 15 Man and woman cease to be humans once they get lost into crowds. Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market Pristine river of lives is swallowed by the crowd - Human getting lost into humans. Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart. Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" (1980) - Severian, Chapter 31 Category:Society