Lynch Mob Sayings

#1. All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Edward Abbey

#2. If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people, I said.

Ilona Andrews

#3. At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Elliott Abrams

#4. 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

#5. A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Robert Ringer

#6. Here's Doc Osborne, first Democratic governor. A lynch mob hung Big Nose George Parrott back in the 1870s. Doc got the body, skinned it, tanned the hide, made himself a medical bag and a pair a shoes. Wore the shoes to his inauguration. They don't make Democrats like that anymore.

Annie Proulx

#7. They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

Michael Lewis

#8. All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.

Cheri Huber

#9. When a guy says something like that, take it at face value. Long enough.

Kelly Moran

#10. The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Jacques Derrida

#11. Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

Ann Macbeth

#12. If there was something that all the time had in common, what your English teacher would call a "theme," it would be this: Don't get caught.

Charles Benoit

#13. I couldn't understand why Frank would want to spend time with this crowd. They were bored, naughty children with highballs and morphine and sex for their toys. People were toys, too.

Paula McLain

#14. A lot of people [in the U.S.] used to say punk really didn't change anything, but I think it did. It was an intangible thing, not a visible thing. It took us through to a new phase of music and a way of seeing things.

Steve Diggle