S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

If mankind had not embedded itself, with the momentum of centuries and the passion of habit, in the idée fixe that a tyrant is one man, they would easily understand that to be persecuted by the masses is the most grievous of all, because the masses are the sum of the individuals, so that each individual makes his little contribution, while he does not realize how great it becomes when all of them do it.

        — The Journals of Sören Kierkegaard