{"quotes":[{"text":"I miss being in Barbados in December,That is a time I always remember,The smell of varnish on the wooden floors,And the smell of paint on the wooden doorsThe crowds in de Supermarket,Buying up the rum,And the music blastingPuh rup a pum pum.","author":"Charmaine J Forde","tags":["barbados","crowds","december","music","paint","puh-rup-a-pum-pum","remember","rum","varnish","wooden-floors"],"id":4437,"author_id":"Charmaine+J+Forde"},{"text":"Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future..","author":"Charles Mackay","tags":["crowds","madness"],"id":4590,"author_id":"Charles+Mackay"},{"text":"The future belongs to crowds.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["crowds","belongs "],"id":7876,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"I often sit and wonderi often sit and dreami often sit and waitfor the one that’s just for me I search the many facesin the crowds of people I see exploring, seeking,looking for, the one that it could be.Is it Mister Blue Collar?  Is it Mister Too Clean?  Is it Mister Holy Onewhich was made for me? Then I stop and thinkof the biggest catastrophe -what if this man  I’m waiting fordoesn’t even recognize me?-LostInACrowd.","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["crowd","crowd","crowds","looking","looking","lost","lost","relationship","relationship","searching","searching","seeking","seeking"],"id":11555,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"Follow your dreams, not the crowd.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-yourself","creativity","crowds","dream","dreamer","genius","greatness","leader","leadership","originality","success","unique"],"id":41735,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","tags":["crowds","masses"],"id":45038,"author_id":"Soren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt onto the Stage and behaved as so many Merry-Andrews among the Actors, which reduced all to Confusion. I laugh'd with them also, for I like to make Merry among the Fallen and there is pleasure to be had in the Observation of the Deformity of Things. Thus when the Play resumed after the Disturbance, it was only to excite my Ridicule with its painted Fictions, wicked Hypocrisies and villainous Customs, all depicted with a little pert Jingle of Words and a rambling kind of Mirth to make the Insipidnesse and Sterility pass. There was no pleasure in seeing it, and nothing to burden the Memory after: like a voluntarie before a Lesson it was absolutely forgotten, nothing to be remembered or repeated.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["audience","audiences","crowds","entertainment","play","plays"],"id":47378,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"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.","author":"Adolf Hitler","tags":["aversion","crowd-control","crowds","domination","faith","fanaticism","hatred","hitler","hypnosis","hysteria","knowledge","love","mass-suggestion","nazis","psychology","respect"],"id":53372,"author_id":"Adolf+Hitler"},{"text":"Business today consists in persuading crowds.","author":"T. S. Eliot","tags":["today","crowds","persuading "],"id":62136,"author_id":"T.+S.+Eliot"},{"text":"She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["concerts","crowds","music"],"id":66855,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}