Character Quote by Aldous Huxley

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

— Aldous Huxley

“compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral,…

— Richard Wiseman

“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of…

— Jonathan Haidt

“The work of a crowd is always inferior, whatever its nature, to that of an isolated individual.”

— Gustave Le Bon

“To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behaviour as individuals within…

— Friedrich Hayek

Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We also show…

— Alan Briskin

“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from…

— Clay Shirky

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Lamentably, it is a historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others,…

— Joseph Heath

“On their own, people can be real with you—sometimes. In groups, people feed from one another as opposed to thinking for themselves. The loudest…

— Sarah Buhl