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- The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more,
- As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.
LORD BYRON, Marino Faliero
The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, Edward Elwell Whiting's Calvin Coolidge
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.
BARNEY FRANK, towh hall meeting, Aug. 18, 2009
It is an easy and a vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them, is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
The mob is a monster with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at him.
There is nothing more odious than the majority; it consists of a few powerful men to lead the way; of accommodating rascals and submissive weaklings; and of a mass of men who trot after them, without in the least knowing their mind.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
A crowd is not the sum of the individuals who compose it. Rather it is a species of animal, without language or real consciousness, born when they gather, dying when they depart.
GENE WOLFE, The Shadow of the Torturer
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