Quotes About Mobs

#1. I think that fear of the mob, the expectation that people, particularly poor and nonwhite people become mobs almost automatically in the absence of coercive authority, is inculcated by the media, the movies, and politicians.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.

Steve Toltz

#3. Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Hush. Don't ask any questions. It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do."
"But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass.
"Shout with the largest," replied Mr. Pickwick.
Volumes could not have said more.

Charles Dickens

#5. The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Dan Simmons

#6. Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and insurrectionist-in otherwords, someone who incites mobs.
Again, the mob "spoke with one voice" demanding "with loud shouts" that Jesus be crucified.

Ann Coulter

#7. 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

#8. Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent ...

Joseph Smith Jr.

#9. Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed.

Patricia Briggs

#10. Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Eric Hoffer, studied the reasons why people voluntarily give away responsibility and join mass movements and mobs. One quote he collected came from a young German who explained that he joined the Nazi party to be "free from freedom.

Eric Greitens

#12. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Owen D. Young

#13. Mobs are soulless things that feed on fear and momentum and prejudice.

Pierce Brown

#14. Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Washington Irving

#15. The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

Celia Green

#16. 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 body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. America is ruled by laws, not mobs!" ==========

Anonymous

#18. In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.

Richard Wright

#19. One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

Ben Horowitz

#20. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Dan Simmons

#21. In many ways, the cycle of violence in Silo Eighteen was no different than what took place elsewhere. Beyond being more severe, it was the same waxing and waning of the mobs, of each generation revolting against the last, a fifteen-to-twenty-year cycle of bloody upheaval. Victor

Hugh Howey

#22. 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

#23. People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs.

Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb

#24. Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Jaron Lanier

#25. Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Jaron Lanier

#26. A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is no easy feat without becoming a hireling of mobs or dynasts. And yet he has a constant abundance of everything, and if he should chance to gain many possessions, he could easily portion them out so as to win his neighbors' good will.

Epicurus

#27. Psychohistory was the quintessence of sociology; it was the science of human behavior reduced to mathematical equations. The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human mobs, Seldon found, could be treated statistically.

Isaac Asimov

#28. Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

#29. Do not love me as if I were a flower!
I want to live a worthy life -
as an atom in a mass of troubles
as a child of the street mobs!

Shushanik Kurghinian

#30. mobs will be kept at bay, since they cannot climb ladders! Save

Malcolm Becker

#31. Despite hating mobs and technically being a nobleman, Napoleon welcomed the Revolution. At least in its early stages it accorded well with the Enlightenment ideals he had ingested from his reading of Rousseau and Voltaire.

Andrew Roberts

#32. I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Bob Filner

#33. Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

Rachel Caine

#34. If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.

Dan Alatorre

#35. A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

#36. Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#37. They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.

Assata Shakur

#38. The Chicago mobs ... They practiced their own perverted form of "survival of the fittest." Where the strong clawed their way to the top of a criminal empire. And the weak died in a hail of machine gun bullets.

Walter Winchell

#39. I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

Irwin Winkler

#40. 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 the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

Clarence Thomas

#41. 'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.

Alex Pareene

#42. 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 is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.

Ludwig Von Mises

#43. Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

Euripides

#44. I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#45. Twitter, far from fostering debate and broadening minds, has turned us into a hive of scolds. Angry mobs wait on the sidelines to strike and then bask in the glow of their moral superiority.

Mick Hume

#46. What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Jerry Garcia

#47. The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Benjamin Franklin

#48. To even call them "units" is a joke. These were just mobs of men in uniforms, clerks

Max Brooks

#49. Today's lynching is a felony charge. Today's lynching is incarceration. Today's lynch mobs are professionals. They have a badge; they have a law degree. A felony is a modern way of saying, 'I'm going to hang you up and burn you.' Once you get that F, you're on fire.

Michelle Alexander

#50. So while she wasn't worried about mobs with pitchforks, not just yet anyway, she wasn't exactly shouting from the rooftops that her husband was a werewolf. She didn't want any nasty surprises either. Besides, she figured it was nobody's business but their own. Well, theirs and their therapist's.

Rosabel Darke

#51. Spider Jockeys are one of only two mobs (along with Chicken Jockeys) that cannot move through portals.

Steve Adamson

#52. The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

Thomas Jefferson

#53. The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

#54. 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

#55. The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

B.F. Skinner

#56. If there is one good thing about an angry mob, it's that they are so focused on being angry and mobbish that they sometimes miss little things. Things like a horse-drawn cart being driven by the very person who has made them so angry and mobbish in the first place.

Cuthbert Soup

#57. Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Lance Conrad

#58. Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Ovid

#59. I have money. I have properties I didn't buy, cars and carpets, antiques and jewels-and none of them means a damn to me if I don't have her. So-give me a number.

Emma Chase