Ralph Waldo Emerson Crowds Quotations

How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.