Crowds Quote by Jennifer Egan

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

— Elsa Schiaparelli

“[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.”

— Raymond Williams

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

— Carl Sagan

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

— Thornton Wilder

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire…

— Gustave Le Bon

“[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.”

— Jessi Kirby

“The history of the object is more relevant than the object itself, if we want to pinpoint what is interesting to us.”

— John Brockman

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

— Herodotus

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

— Avery Brooks

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

— Charles Bukowski