Quotes of Mob - somelinesforyou

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ 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

“ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ”

- Bible

“ The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. ”

- R. S. Donnell

“ 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

“ 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

“ The mob has many heads but no brains. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ 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

“ 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

“ Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers. ”

- Joan Chittister

“ The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. ”

- Epicurus

“ Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard

“ Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ”

- D.H. Lawrence

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The mob is the mother of tyrants. ”

- Diogenes

“ 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

“ History shows that there are no invincible armies. ”

- Joseph Stalin

“ Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns. ”

- Cardinal de Retz

“ A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. ”

- John Dryden

“ Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. ”

- Frederic Bastiat

“ The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ 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

“ 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

“ The Bible of Photojournalism. ”

- Harold Evans
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