Quotes About Mob
The mob was only a means to strengthen their position, to give their voices a greater resonance. Obviously they neither could nor wanted to organize the mob, and would dismiss it once their aim was achieved. But they discovered that antisemitic slogans were highly effective in mobilizing large strata of the population.
~ Hannah Arendt
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
~ Hannah Arendt
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While the people in all great revolutions fight for true representation, the mob always will shout for for the 'strong man', the 'great leader'.
~ Hannah Arendt
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All the déclassés of capitalist society were finally ready to unite and establish mob organizations of their own; their propaganda and their attraction rested on the assumption that a society which had shown its willingness to incorporate crime in the form of vice into its very structure would by now be ready to cleanse itself of viciousness by openly
~ Hannah Arendt
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In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.
~ Kevin McHale
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Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.
~ Joy Reid
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In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
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My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.
~ Ace Hood
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There is no need for reason in a mob. One has only to cry, "Kill!" and the mob will start of its own volition to find something that may be slain. Also
~ Max Brand
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Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It
~ Max Brand
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It is not growing fanaticism, but growing democracy, that causes my troubles. Did you ever read the life of Averroes? He was protected by kings, but hated by the mob, which was fanatical. In the end, the mob won. Free thought has always been a perquisite of aristocracy.
~ Bertrand Russell
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The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.
~ Ivor Novello
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A hungry mob is an angry mob.
~ Bob Marley
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I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
~ Booboo Stewart
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It makes no difference." "Sure it does. That's why we have a system of justice, so that vigilantes like you don't irresponsibly call for mob violence against an innocent man.
~ Harlan Coben
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A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?
~ Harper Lee
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Starving lynch mobs might well have been roaming the fields of southern England demanding reform, but here within its heavily policed boundaries, London pursued its pushing, shoving, shouting commercial life without shame, without hindrance, without distraction.
~ Harry Thompson
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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
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They were an invisible mob inside an ivory tower. The calls themselves irritated rather than informed her. "They'd do mental masturbation," said Charity. "Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.
~ Michael Lewis
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Others did not fare so well. A German man in St. Louis who was believed to have spoken ill of his adopted country was set upon by a mob, dragged through the streets tied up in an American flag, and hanged. A jury subsequently found the mob leaders not guilty on the grounds that it had been a "patriotic murder.
~ Bill Bryson
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The most common trigger, worldwide, that tripped an angry mob into violence was the sound of breaking glass.
~ Brad Thor
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We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like...Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?...I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
~ Tamora Pierce
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A city with no way of telling the time can by no stretch of the imagination be called civilised. It's just a mob with walls.
~ K.J. Parker
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We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs and we know now that a government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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