"A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence."

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Source : Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

Jean Francois Revel

#Ideas Quotes #Suggestions Quotes #Groups Quotes

“The real risk is doing nothing.”
“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
“It is not more than you can handle. It is merely more than you thought you could do.”
“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”
“Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.”
“Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.”

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