Top 100 A Mob Quotes
#1. Did you ever see a mob rush across town to do a good deed? Dave Robicheaux
James Lee Burke
#2. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton
#3. The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.
Sarah Silverman
#4. Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand
#5. One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
Teju Cole
#6. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob." His
Frank Herbert
#7. I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.
Jason Mewes
#8. In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.
Euripides
#9. I'd rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
Albert S. Ruddy
#10. A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Teju Cole
#11. A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking,
Steven Erikson
#12. A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Ray Stannard Baker
#14. Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
Harry Houdini
#15. A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
Swami Vivekananda
#16. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.
Douglas MacArthur
#17. 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, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
Benjamin Disraeli
#18. Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
Herman Melville
#19. There was some banging around in the hall, and Aunt Prue appeared in the doorway in an equally large and disturbing hat. This one was black, with a wraparound veil that made Aunt Prue look like the mother of a mob boss at his funeral.
Kami Garcia
#20. You think you know the truth. You no longer want to hold it from public gaze, you reveal it to simple souls who can't manage it and you lead them into unbelief, then you are left with a mob of monsters you do not know what to do with
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#21. A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.
Ayn Rand
#22. One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.
Spiro T. Agnew
#23. Tommy pointed out before removing something from his pocket and passing it to me. I turned the small radio and microphone over in my hands. "I'm not going on a mob bust." "It's that or you wear one of those ridiculous Bluetooth headsets, which are about as secure as yelling really loud.
Steve McHugh
#24. Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
Romain Gary
#25. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.
Henry V. O'Neil
#26. -Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.-
-And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-
Neal Shusterman
#27. She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.
Janet Fitch
#28. The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is
a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.
Mark Twain
#29. The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters,
Terry Pratchett
#30. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?
Peter Carey
#31. Do you want to be in our mob?" Elena asks him.
"When did we get a mob?" he says.
"We don't have one yet. I'm working on it."
Michael turns to me.
"It's got something to do with books."
"In that case," says Michael, "I'm in.
Paul Acampora
#32. The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.
Stephen King
#33. To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.
Malcolm Bradbury
#34. Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#35. It's a law enforcement axiom. But who better to help bust a crack dealer than another crack dealer? Who better to bring down a mob boss than another mobster? As long as there have been cops, they've been making deals with informants,
John Shiffman
#36. When you're part of a mob, the mob is a monster. A person in a mob is nothing like the person you sit and chat with in the kitchen. Drinking
Svetlana Alexievich
#37. While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
Jason Calacanis
#38. I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.
Wilson Mizner
#39. I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
Deepa Mehta
#40. A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.
Stephen King
#41. In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.
Anthony Esolen
#42. An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.
Artie Shaw
#43. Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it.
Steve Merrick
#44. A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.
K.J. Parker
#45. A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Ray Stannard Baker
#46. The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.
Henry Miller
#49. He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
Ann Rinaldi
#50. The character for 'mob' is formed from the character for 'nobility' on one side and the character for 'sheep' on the other. So that's what a mob is, a herd of sheep that turns into a pack of wolves because they believe themselves to be serving a noble cause.
Ken Liu
#51. Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
D.H. Lawrence
#52. 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. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
T. S. Eliot
#54. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.
Calvin Coolidge
#55. All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
George Eliot
#56. A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#57. The kicking and punching stopped only when it became apparent that all the mob was attacking was itself. And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened.
Terry Pratchett
#58. Like the ideals of freedom and democracy, the right to stand one's ground was held to be an exclusively white prerogative. Even when threatened by a mob, black people were to back down or submit - never to stand up for themselves.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#59. I'm not an easy lay, I won't do a one-night stand, and my father is a mob boss with a short temper and a collection of guns. Still want to take me out?" - Ana Avdonin
Bethany-Kris
#60. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.
Matthew Pearl
#61. The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.
Thomas Ligotti
#62. National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
J. F. C. Fuller
#63. Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
Herbert Gold
#64. A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
Samuel Johnson
#66. And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
Orson Scott Card
#68. Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
Ovid
#69. 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, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.
Theodore Levitt
#70. Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.
Frank Herbert
#71. A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
Jet Li
#72. When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
#73. No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
John Ruskin
#74. In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
#75. When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
Jason Dolley
#76. All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile,
Greg Bear
#77. Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.
Novalis
#78. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know
doesn't say much for them, does it?
Harper Lee
#79. The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
#80. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#81. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
James Madison
#82. Aaron Persky who is the judge who really I think it's fair to say there is a mob seeking to recall him because of what's perceived as a too-lenient sentence in a sexual assault case.
Dahlia Lithwick
#83. A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.
Frank Herbert
#84. A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
Robert Frost
#85. So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?
Rachel Vincent
#86. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
Adam Smith
#87. Odd thing, ain't it ... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it snarls." "That's mob rule!
Terry Pratchett
#88. Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#89. Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
James A. Michener
#90. The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.
Roman Dmowski
#91. I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.
Henry James
#92. I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.
Holly Black
#93. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.
Edward Abbey
#94. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
#95. They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
George Thorogood
#96. It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. The
Alastair Reynolds
#97. 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 slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
#98. The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett
#99. Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes.
Terry Pratchett
#100. I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.
Glenn Gould
