Mob Quotes

262 quotes by 204 authors

Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a… — James Madison
Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses - that… — Lord Byron
I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob.… — Heidi Montag
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob. — Ann Coulter
They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the… — Louis O. Kelso
Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob, a mob overflowing… — Wendell Berry
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob. — Edward Abbey
Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The… — Edward Abbey
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. — Ida B. Wells
For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists… — Oliver Stone
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms;… — Malcolm Bradbury
A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a… — Frank Herbert
Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I… — Dick Cavett
Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule… — Doug Casey
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'? — Plato

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