The Madness Of Crowds Quotes
"But thanks to the vaccines, they no longer had to worry about the spread of a deadly virus."
"It wasn’t just relief, it felt like a rebirth."
"Like a rosary, or rabbit’s foot, or a St. Christopher medal, promising safe passage."
"Anger had become free-floating. Falling on the nearest neck."
"The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse."
"Managing a crowd so it didn’t turn into a mob wasn’t science."
"The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views."
"It was the seeds of anger, sown by a genteel statistician and taking root."
"The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse."
"He wanted to sit with his grandchildren, a heavy rug covering their legs, and watch Gloria’s swaying tail as the horse pulled the big red sleigh up the north road out of the village."
"A lecture? In English? They pulled me away from a day skiing with my family because someone wants to give a talk?"
"Three decades of looking at the bodies of surprised people did that."
"The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see."
"The unmistakable musk of teen sweat still hung in the air, impossible to banish even though the teens who’d produced it were now probably parents themselves."
"It had never happened under his command, but Gamache suspected that, given the right circumstances, it could."
"It was like nothing he’d ever felt before. Not on this scale."
"He looked out at the crowd and saw some pushing now, as spectators began to suspect they might not get in, and that their rival might."
"We’re looking into that. We have to cover all possibilities."
"He wondered how long that would last, if she learned the truth."
"Things that seem fairly reasonable, though perhaps a little odd, in normal life suddenly look a lot worse when a crime is committed."
"What I do know is that how we feel drives what we think, and that determines what we do."
"Fortunately, if we do misinterpret facts and arrest the wrong person, the case is dismissed."
"The same set of facts can lead us to different conclusions."
"Our interpretation of facts can depend on our experiences. Even our upbringing. On what we want the facts to say."
"Few academics would do that, if only because we’d soon be found out in peer review."
"True, but it’s not because I’m wrong. In fact, it’s because they know I’m right and it makes them uncomfortable."
"Correct and right are two different things. As are facts and truth."
"It’s sometimes a necessity, but that’s all. You can’t tell me you haven’t sighted another person and pulled the trigger. Was it easy? Or did it add another measure of bile to your cup?"
"Human life is sacred. That’s another thing I learned in the camps. When you see so much death, you come to value life. When you see so much cruelty, you come to value kindness."
"Because you’re so much more civilized, is that it? The true north, strong and free. You just bash each other over the head at parties. And shoot each other in bistros."
"But statistics are a weapon. Isn’t that why we’re here?"
"It made you write a report on the pandemic that suggested euthanizing the frail and vulnerable. It made what happened to your sister no longer murder, but a mercy killing."
"You make it sound noble, Madame Daoud, the Hero of the Sudan. The truth is, you did it to escape. To survive."
"I came here to look him in the eye. To make him admit what he did."
"The whole thing started a few weeks ago, didn’t it? When you found the letter Dr. Gilbert wrote to your father demanding payment. That’s when you realized what had happened to your mother."
"No one was likely to have been walking around with one."