Quotes About Mob

At four, Claire was the youngest Pike. Then there was Margo, who was six; Nicky, who was seven; Vanessa, who was eight; the identical triplets — Byron, Adam, and Jordan — who were nine, and Mallory, who was ten. Suddenly, they looked more like a mob than an innocent bunch of kids.

He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

The more unequal societies become, the more likely we are to hear from the demophobes. This would strike a chord with my great-grandparents' generation. It would also sound familiar to America's Founding Fathers. 'The newfound aversion to democratic institutions among rich citizens in the West may be no more than a return to the historical norm,' write Yascha Mounk and Roberto Stefan Foa.53 To put it more bluntly: when inequality is high, the rich fear the mob.

The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.

I asked what the scene at the beach was like and Chao goes, "A silent mob scene is like a hand job without the hand.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else's equal, 'At bottom we are all herd and mob.

T]he mob is the most ruthless of tyrants;

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

One by one I could handle them, but if they combined into a mob of three I would have trouble. Divide and conquer would be my motto.

In D'Arco's words, "It was like a forest and all the trees around it were organized-crime guys.

The persecution of Judaism by Epiphanes, the attack on Alexandrian Jewry by the mob, and the destruction of the temple by Titus were each caused by local factors and not by some deep-rooted "anti-Judaism." Nevertheless, the literary propaganda spawned by these conflicts helped shape the "anti-Semitic" image of the Jew of later generations.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

The entire fate of the nation was being decided by the will of those men who had the feeblest power of introspection and by the blind actions of the ignorant mob that followed them.

Catiline:) For since the government has fallen under the power and jurisdiction of a few, kings and princes have constantly been their tributaries; nations and states have paid them taxes; but all the rest of us, however brave and worthy, whether noble or plebeian, have been regarded as a mere mob, without interest or authority, and subject to those, to whom, if the state were in a sound condition, we should be a terror.

You scare one stupid man, he'll most likely run off. But a crowd of stupid men—there ain't nothing more dangerous, or meaner.

Unfortunately, when residents found that the one patient at the new place was black, they mobbed the place, set it on fire, and chased the patient and caretaker onto a boat.

The Mob" thought that a good deal should be overlooked in a Melmotte, and that the philanthropy of his great designs should be allowed to cover a multitude of sins. I do not know that the theory was ever so plainly put forward as it was done by the ingenious and courageous writer in "The Mob"; but in practice it has commanded the assent of many intelligent minds.

Danton, Robespierre, and Tallien wish it—the mob of Paris wishes it—but the people of France does not wish to depose their King. But unfortunately, said d'Autachamps, it is Danton, Robespierre, and the mob of Paris who have now the supreme power, and for a time will have their way

Mrs. Pike, ought to know that freedom of speech becomes mere license when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob.