Quotes About Mob

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.

If public opinion cannot express itself through political associations, newspapers, and electoral politics, it will be channeled into mob violence

Thus demographic shifts stimulated an increase in race prejudice and mob violence, especially among working-class whites and European immigrants also pouring into the city.16

But mob violence, like tourism, is a kind of communion. By its special magic a large number of lonely souls, however heterogeneous, can share the common property of opposition to what is.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated," Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.

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.

One of the werewolves tried to break away from the attacking mob of otters and crocodiles to get at them, but a persistent baby alligator (Observe the Young of the Species, Only Two Feet Long) chomped on its ankle and dragged it back into the mêlée.

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people," I said.

It lacks glamour? - It lacks mob emotion-appeal. - Same thing.

The mob has many heads but no brains.

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

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

In a letter, he described it as "a painfully big city wherein dwell practically no native sons of The Golden West, but a heterogeneous mob of movie actors and actresses and emigrants from Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa . . .

we can stop and see if the library has a copy of Hiding from the Mob in Ten Easy Steps. Maybe there'll be some tip in there that I've missed.

Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice.

The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.

finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.

There's this thing that happens with a mob. It's called "deindividuation." It's the kind of thing that happens when a cop puts on a uniform, or when you wear a pair of sunglasses so people can't quite see your eyes. It's like you slip out of your normal self—and it makes you feel different. Behave different. So what happens when you're just another thirsty soul in sea of water-zombies? You become one.

The misinformed mob never changes; it just replaces torches and pitchforks with iPhones and Androids.

Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.- -And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-