It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The narrator finds satisfaction in controlling a large crowd of frozen people.
- In plain terms
- It feels good to hold power over many people.
- What can you take from it?
- Power over others can be intoxicating.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does control become harmful?
- How do we view crowds?
Another view
It normalizes treating people as objects.
More from Charles Dickens
La difficulte d'ecrire l'anglais m'est extremement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu ! si l'on pouvait toujours ecrire cette belle langue de France!
Permalink to quote #6 I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty ou…
Permalink to quote #8 O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.
Permalink to quote #5
Related quotes
He ruleth all the roste.
John SkeltonJohn Skelton quote #4 This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. Bu…
Doris LessingDoris Lessing quote #11 Ne peut-on pas remonter jusqu'a ces anciens scelerats, fondateurs illustres de la superstition et du fanatisme, qui, les premiers, ont pris le couteau sur l'au…
VoltaireVoltaire quote #14