Mob Quotes

262 quotes by 204 authors

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. — Herodotus
Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them that the mob… — Walter Bagehot
I court not the votes of the fickle mob. — Horace
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. — H. L. Mencken
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them… — H. L. Richardson
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If… — Nick Harkaway
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile, — Greg Bear
I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say… — Gary Reilly
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or… — Ayn Rand
But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you… — Gabrielle Giffords
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D. H. Lawrence
I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to… — Glenn Gould
Thereâ€™s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How… — Frank Rich
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under one flag in… — H. L. Mencken
While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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