Nuggets and Aphorisms

Food for thought. These first appeared in Amit Varma's blog, India Uncut

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Crowd psychology

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Friedrich Schiller, the German playwright. Quoted in Collapse by Jared Diamond.
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