Quotes About The Rabble

#1. I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus

#2. RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#5. I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn't have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer by not competing.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

Albert Einstein

#8. A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

Euripides

#9. If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Andrew Johnson

#10. "Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

Walter Scott

#11. Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.

Karen Azinger

#12. It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

Charles Baudelaire

#13. The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

Sam Kean

#15. The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. There are perhaps more of the qualities that matter among the ignorant then among the learned. But again, what a vile thing the rabble is!

Virginia Woolf

#17. Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Frank Herbert

#19. We need to bring out the rabble-rousing nature of people. We are gonna need un-repression. We need hundreds of people farting up a storm. We need a big-time, old-fashioned, furious, fart storm.

Allan Dare Pearce

#20. Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion
religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Westbrook Pegler

#22. The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Walter Savage Landor

#23. The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. I'm a proud member of the rabble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#25. American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right ... To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.

Walter B. Pitkin

#26. If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. In a moment of acute anxiety a year earlier, John Adams had wondered what would happen if "the multitude, the vulgar, the herd, the rabble" maintained such open defiance of authority. 13

Ron Chernow

#28. Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest.

Frank Herbert

#29. he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

Octavia E. Butler

#30. The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchants, psychos, ghouls. They could smell a funeral a mile off, and out they crawled, out of the woodwork. A funeral lit them up, it was like fuel, it kept them burning for days.

Rupert Thomson

#31. Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

Jello Biafra

#32. Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

W. E. B. Griffin

#33. The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

Aldous Huxley

#34. We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East ... The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael ... [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky

#35. Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#36. I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Horace

#37. The hippo did, and I heard what sounded at first like a rabble, many voices talking over one another. Then I realized that they weren't talking.
"Let me get this straight," the hippo said when I explained what was going on. "Leeches are singing inside my asshole.

David Sedaris

#38. There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

Thomas Browne

#39. Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'

John Fund

#40. Despicable rabble," however, pretty much summed up George Washington's opinion of the troops when he arrived in Cambridge in July. In a letter to his brother John, the new commander in chief grumbled, "I found a mixed multitude of People here, under very little discipline, order, or Government.

Sarah Vowell

#41. Jesus's titulus reads KING OF THE JEWS. His crime: striving for kingly rule; sedition. And so, like every bandit and revolutionary, every rabble-rousing zealot and apocalyptic prophet who came before or after him -

Reza Aslan

#42. I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#43. I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan

Neal Shusterman

#44. The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

John C. Calhoun

#45. I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block ... pretty funny.

P. J. O'Rourke

#46. So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

Charlton Heston

#47. Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

H.L. Mencken

#48. Finally, by making activism our priority, we fashion a reputation as rabble-rousing malcontents and foster hostility toward unbelievers that alienates us from them, and them from us. We need to let go of the notion that culture and

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#49. Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts.

Gayle Forman

#51. And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.

Ezra Pound

#52. Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

James Baker

#53. ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE the overriding issue for the ragamuffin rabble is the person of Jesus Christ.

Brennan Manning

#54. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.

Mamoru Oshii

#55. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.

Richard Dawkins

#56. I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

Horace