Crowd mentality is a kind of simultaneous psychosis which may take possession of any group. - Everett Dean Martin

The crowd is a social phenomenon only in the sense that it affects a number of persons at the same time.

Crowd men have no sense of humor. It is very difficult to educate solemn and opinionated people.

The evil effect of these attempts to manipulate the multitude by pampering its weaknesses---in return for material and other advantages to persons and for ends not disclosed—is clearly seen in various aspects of our common life. In politics such effect have long been deplorable.