The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. – Epicurus

The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction. – Harry S Truman

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. – Henry David Thoreau