Mob Quotes

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

Bad, Authority, Necessity

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

God, Once, Spirit

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

Time, Nose, Quietly

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.
Ayn Rand

Law, Matter, Rights

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

Friends, Rather, Few

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
William Penn

Passion, Reason, Riot

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

Won, Propaganda, Momentum

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
Camille Paglia

Power, Freedom, Thought

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.
Ann Romney

Cry, Anyone, Hug

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
Ida B. Wells

Country, Crime, Insane

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes

Mother, Tyrants

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
Shirley MacLaine

Play, Taught, Gin

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
Herodotus

Nothing, Foolish, Useless

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
Jaron Lanier

Deep, Human, Problem

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton

Strength, Alone, Him

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

Great, Art, Through

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
Alton Brown

Food, Movies, Makes

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
Dan Savage

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
Channing Tatum

Love, Hope, Someone

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.
James Bovard

Equality, Law, Before

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
Ida B. Wells

Off, Body, Among

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
Conrad Black

Government, Enough, Rich

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
Frank Miller

Nothing, America, False

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
James Caan

Real, Movie, Charming

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

Through, Dance, Lose

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.
Jonah Goldberg

Government, Political, Hero

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer

Turn, Open, Audience

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Ray Stannard Baker

Good, Government, Law

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.
Hoda Kotb

Great, Thought, After

Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.'
Rian Johnson

Work, Time, Men

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