Mob Quotes
262 quotes by 203 authors
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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
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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
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The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
— Terry Pratchett
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Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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
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We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
— Debi Mazar
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Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
— Plato
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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
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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
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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
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Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
— Herman Melville
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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
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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
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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
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Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.
— Teju Cole
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
— Franz Grillparzer
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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
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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
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I'll likely be married to the soldier mob for better and for worse to live and to die.
— Charles XII of Sweden
Who Wrote These Mob Quotes
203 authors contributed a total of 262 Mob Quotes, led by these top contributors: