Crowds Quotations Quotes

“No matter how different you are, no matter how different you think, no matter how extraordinary or how ordinary you are, when you get on a train, you will go in the same direction as everyone on that train! That's what happens to you if you mingle with the crowds! The crowd always takes you where it goes!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A crowd-loving person will be deprived of the treasures of silence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The crowd prevents thinking! If you do not give up crowds, you will give up thoughts!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The clever person is not among the crowd, but outside of it! He has his own way, free from crowds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The biggest difference between a river and a river of crowds is that the first always reaches its goal, but the second usually gets tired and disperses before it reaches its goal!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To understand the universe and life deeply, it is necessary to get away from the crowds because crowds means chattering, it means producing empty words, it means not thinking! The crowd is a huge waste of time!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“In crowds you cannot understand how big neither the world nor the universe is; but while walking alone, looking at the endless horizons, you realize both your own smallness and the greatness of the outside world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The charisma of the crowd comes from looking strong and muscular; the charisma of the individual comes from his ability to think! The crowd represents the muscle, the individual represents the mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A crowd

A crowd of people is a crowd where a personality is lost.
The crowd of people is like a big crazy animal.
People feel more sureness together.
The personality is lost.
It is so easy to rule the animal
if the personality is lost.
The crowd makes its huge steps in the streets.
The planet is falling in darkness if the personality is lost.

© Ekaterina Yakovina”
― Ekaterina Yakovina

“Fishing rods prey on fish, and politicians prey on unthinking crowds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Once in the crowd, a collar is worn around your neck; if the crowd runs to the left, you have to run to the left, if they run to the right, you have to run to the right, if they stop, you have to stop! If you are not in control, someone else is in control and then you become a puppet, a puppet of the mindless crowd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Falling into the crowd is like falling into a soup; soup covers you, you become deaf, blind; soup permeates your thoughts too! Stay away from soup to see well, hear well, and think well!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I travelled with crowds and learned some things; I travelled alone, I learned many things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No matter which country you live in, go in the direction the mind points, not in the direction of the crowd, because the crowd destroys thought, creates fog, you cannot know the right direction, you cannot see the right path!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Without having a peaceful quiet corner, you drift meaninglessly in front of the crowd's cacophony!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Crowds cause damage to the mind and body, and the only cure for this is to go away from the crowds for a while!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If there is a waterfall at the end of a river, it is necessary to swim upstream! Crowds too are rivers that end with waterfalls!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Can you experience freedom in the crowd? Yes, it is possible, find a crowd where everyone is very busy with their own lives, there you can feel completely free, because you are absent for them, no one will see you there!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“While eating with the crowd, you can neither concentrate on the food nor the crowd; you go back and forth between the crowd and the food as if you were swinging on a swing!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes a terrible forest fire breaks out, an entire forest turns to ash, but a lonely tree standing outside the forest shouts "I'm here!" When you think you are safe among the stupid crowds, remember the noble stance of the smart tree standing outside the crowd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don't be fooled by the crowds of the roads and think that the road is going in the right direction! There are extraordinarily absurd beliefs, there are terribly crowded roads that millions and even billions of people follow with their inadequate or cunningly deceived minds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You can get into the crowd to forget yourself, but after a while you will want to get out of the crowd to remember yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you want to teach something to the crowd, you must first silence the crowd, and remember that achieving silence is harder than teaching!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Mass is like a knife that can be used to peel an apple or to destroy human life. This depends entirely on whether the person controlling the mass is a balanced, normal person or a psychopathic, abnormal person, since the crowd has no mind of its own.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan