MOB QUOTES II

quotations about mobs

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

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A hungry mob is an angry mob.

BOB MARLEY

"Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)", Natty Dread


The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

STANISLAW JERZY LEC

Unkempt Thoughts


There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

OSCAR WILDE

Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man

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Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

EMILE ZOLA

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

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Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

ANNELI RUFUS

Party of One


You cannot conceive the many without the one.

PLATO

Parmenides

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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

McClure's Magazine, 1905


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

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The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob -- not the mob itself.

JONAH GOLDBERG

"Do Liberals Live Under a Tyranny of Cliches?", NPR, May 2, 2012


"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.

CHARLES DICKENS

The Pickwick Papers

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Every time the Mob puts the pressure on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it's a crucifixion.

BUDD SCHULBERG

On the Waterfront


The mob are more restless than the waves of the sea.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

CRISS JAMI

Healology


Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

GUNTER GRASS

My Century

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Disruption never helps your cause. It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

BARNEY FRANK

towh hall meeting, August 18, 2009

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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

FREDERICK THE GREAT

letter to Voltaire, July 7, 1737


The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.

MARTIN LUTHER

Whether Soldiers Can Also Be in a State of Grace

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"Marginalia"

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