Mob Quotes
262 quotes by 204 authors
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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule.…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
— James P. Hoffa
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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit…
— H. L. Mencken
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The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress,…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
— Seneca the Younger
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of…
— Seneca the Younger
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Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love…
— Channing Tatum
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It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
— Lord Chesterfield
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In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
— Euripides
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The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.
— Euripides
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Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in…
— Aldous Huxley
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They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
— George Thorogood
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By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against…
— Adolf Hitler
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When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.
— John Cleese
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The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
— Arthur Darvill
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On one side the government, the other side the mob.
— Neil Young
Who Wrote These Mob Quotes
204 authors contributed a total of 262 Mob Quotes, led by these top contributors: