Quotes About Mob

of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

But both murders affect Lincoln deeply. In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

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

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

It's legitimate for the police to use violence because they are enforcing the law; the law is legitimate because it's rooted in the constitution; the constitution is legitimate because it comes from the people; the people created the constitution by acts of illegal violence. The obvious question, then: How does one tell the difference between "the people" and a mere rampaging mob?

I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think. —George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

If "persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob," "if the laws be continually despised and disregarded," Lincoln warned, citizens' affection for their government must inevitably be alienated.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

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.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.