Mob Quotes
262 quotes by 200 authors
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Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come…
— Ann Romney
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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob.…
— Dan Savage
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of…
— Ida B. Wells
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
— Ida B. Wells
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been…
— Ida B. Wells
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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
— Rebecca West
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
— Oscar Wilde
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As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
— H. L. Mencken
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I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they…
— Jerry Spinelli
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The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the…
— Terry Pratchett
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Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
— Walter E. Williams
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it…
— H. L. Mencken
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Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and chiacking…
— Tim Winton
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When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.'…
— Craig Ferguson
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Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work…
— George Orwell
Who Wrote These Mob Quotes
200 authors contributed a total of 262 Mob Quotes, led by these top contributors: