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“All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”

Thinking Men Wells Has Beens Said Psychology Mad Crowds Senses Propaganda Herds Well Said Herd Mentality

Book:Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Source: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

“I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.”

Term Common Psychology Crowds Lowest Evolutionary Psychology Anarchist Herds Mistrust Common Denominator Power And Control Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Will Self

“Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.”

Spirituality Psychology Individuality Crowds Rebellion Lions Sheep Orthodoxy

Book:From R to Z

Source: From R to Z

“While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.”

“I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.”

Ifs Should Hate Left Answers Psychology Wise Speech Mass Scientist I Hate Cameras Crowds Manifestation Abstract Fancy Left Alone Crossfire

Author:Albert Einstein

“It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.”

People Mean Spiritual Individual Levels Acting Psychology Morality Crowds Accepted Commonplace Mean People

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.”

People Problem Psychology Solutions Ancient Crowds Fables Sphinx

Book:The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Source: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“I'm tired of being in a room filled with air.”

Philosophy Psychology Air Friends Crowds Anthony T Hincks Politicians Veitch

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.”

Love Faith Knowledge Psychology Respect Hatred Crowds Domination Fanaticism Hysteria Aversion Hitler Nazis Hypnosis Crowd Control Mass Suggestion

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf