Mobs Quotes

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus

Life, Cannot, Free

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John Ruskin

Education, Control, Longer

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Nothing

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving

Men, Society, Together

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.
Clarence Thomas

Wrong, Afraid, Wonder

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia

America, Place, American

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
Jaron Lanier

Progress, Both, Avoid

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
Jaron Lanier

Made, Soon, Appear

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
Owen D. Young

Human, Emotions, Respond

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