crowd, n.Definitions

A Crowd is not company.

The Crowd can rarely account for its judgment... it has one opinion today, another tomorrow.

A Crowd is a device for indulging ourselves in a kind of temporary insanity by all going crazy together.

A Crowd is a collection of people which finds it easier to cheer than to think.

A Crowd is a thing whose presence always signals the presence of untruth.

A Crowd is, proportionately to its size, magnifying of all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

A Crowd is not company but a loveless thing where faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal.

The Crowd is a thing over which there always seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.