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Quotes About Mob

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
~ James P. Hoffa
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
~ Elliott Abrams
The United States is a constitutional republic, and the Founding Fathers fought to ensure that the mob couldn't undermine it.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.
~ Asma Jahangir
The last of us could be the very best of us who ever roamed the earth, the great exemplars of a humanity we used to dream of becoming before we got wise to the reality that we are just a mob always in the market for new recruits.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Las muchedumbres se dejan conducir por el entorno o por las voluntades y deseos de otros que son más fuertes.
~ Three Initiates
The first thing they heard was the voices of an angry mob shouting "Salope! Salope!"—the
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
~ J. F. C. Fuller
And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
~ Orson Scott Card
You don't understand how important faith is to the people of Lusitania,' said Peregrine 'And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
~ D.H. Lawrence
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
~ Charles Mackay
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
~ Charles Mackay
He recognized that, first, the rich are always desirous of governing for their own benefit, and second that the people can always turn against them and become a mob, taking things into its own hands. As always, the mean between extremes is to be sought.
~ Charles Van Doren
Imagine a furious horde….This horde is transported with the wild delight of a crime to be committed without risk. They are armed with sticks, torches, revolvers, ropes, knives, scissors, vitriol, daggers; in a word, with all that can be used to wound or kill. Imagine in this, a flotsam of black flesh pushed about, beaten, trampled underfoot, torn, slashed, insulted, tossed hither and thither, bloodstained, dead. The horde are the lynchers. The human rag is the Black, the victim.
~ H? Chí Minh
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
tell me how one soberly hates people—I don't think I know.' Oliver: Well, you can't love a mob, surely to goodness? Because that's to be one of them, chattering and scolding and snivelling and cheering—maudlin drunk if you like. I learned to be soldier enough to hate a mob. There's discipline in heaven…
~ Harley Granville Barker
Outraged at having the site of the tragedy transformed into what one observer called a "mass murder amusement park," an angry mob tore down the barricade, "and everyone was then free to visit the death spot without charge or restraint.
~ Harold Schechter
the worst rioting in the city's history when a mob of ten thousand citizens, outraged over the lenient sentence given to one of the killers, ransacked the courthouse and set it on fire in March 1884.
~ Harold Schechter
A shot was fired, the mob jumped back for a second then set about the car with renewed fury. In the end, two men were taken out and shot dead. They were Corporals Derek Wood and Robert Howes.
~ Harry McCallion
As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.
~ Leigh Brackett
I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs
~ Lemony Snicket
Mob psychology," Sunny said, remembering a term Klaus had taught her shortly before she took her first steps.
~ Lemony Snicket
According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.
~ leno jay iii