Mob Quotes

262 quotes by 203 authors

A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but… — Josiah Royce
From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do… — Epictetus
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters. — Terry Pratchett
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills… — George Will
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors. — Debi Mazar
Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule. — Plato
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. — P.J. O'Rourke
A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean de la Bruyere
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that… — H. L. Mencken
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. — Herman Melville
Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and… — L. Neil Smith
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of… — Galileo Galilei
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob. — Teju Cole
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask… — D. H. Lawrence
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die. — Charles XII of Sweden

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