mob-mentality

When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

From one dog all the dogs bark.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.