[Little Ray]

Since these people WANT to be able to arrest and disappear people with whom they disagree, they cannot be reasoned with. They don’t quite understand that they might be victims of this as well, and, depending their level of fanaticism, might not care.

[oblomov]

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” ― Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds