“ Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous — who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses — that man your navy, and recruit your army — that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair… ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3K
“ The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 3K
“ Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ”
- Epicurus- Copy
- 768
“ Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ”
- D.H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. ”
- Ernest Becker- Copy
- 347
“ It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
- 379
“ Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ”
- Charles Mackay- Copy
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“ The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. ”
- Jane Porter- Copy
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“ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns. ”
- Cardinal de Retz- Copy
- 643
“ A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 393
“ I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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