Definition of Mob

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Definition of Mob

Mob

A mobcap.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

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Mob Quotations

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn Rand

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

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

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

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

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes

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

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

Mob Translations

mob in Latin is vulgus
mob in Spanish is chusma

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