Mob Quotes

262 quotes by 204 authors

The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring… — Jane Porter
It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains. — Antoine Rivarol
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white,… — Neal Boortz
All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. — Douglas Jardine
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political… — Hunter S. Thompson
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and… — Amos Bronson Alcott
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled… — John F. Kennedy
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in… — Jonah Goldberg
The mob is the mother of tyrants. — Diogenes
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn… — Jaron Lanier
The mob taught me how to play gin rummy. — Shirley MacLaine
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette… — Camille Paglia
Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. — William Penn
When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays… — Tom Petty
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. — Edgar Allan Poe
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. — William Powell
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an… — Ayn Rand

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