Mobs Quotes

30 quotes by 27 authors

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less. — Susan B. Anthony
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously… — Stephen Colbert
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. — Owen D. Young
All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured,… — Theodore Levitt
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Guy Endore
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin
Lynch mobs are democracies. — Neal Boortz
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it… — Ludwig von Mises
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .… — Henry David Thoreau
Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. — Euripides
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. — Jerry Garcia
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually… — Washington Irving
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. — Jaron Lanier
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. — Jaron Lanier
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. — John Ruskin
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of… — Clarence Thomas
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.… — Joseph Campbell

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