Mob Quotes

“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”

“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.”

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

“Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.”

“At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.”

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

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

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

“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”

“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.”

“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.”

“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

“Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.”

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.”

“Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob — not the mob itself.”

“TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.”

“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”