Crowd

A crowd is defined as a group of people that have gathered for a common purpose or intent such as at a demonstration, a sports event, or during looting

• A mob's a monster; heads enough, but no brains.
  • Poor Richard's Almanack, an entry in 1747.

• Man and woman cease to be humans once they get lost into crowds.
  • Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market

• Pristine river of lives is swallowed by the crowd - Human getting lost into humans.
  • Suman Pokhrel, Standing in a Market

• A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart.
  • Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" (1980) - Severian, Chapter 31