Quotes about Mob
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
- Oscar Wilde
I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
- Psalm 26:5
But many people saw them leaving and recognized them. They ran together on foot from all the towns and arrived before them.
- Mark 6:33
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
- Acts 17:5
When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.
- Acts 21:35
It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
- DH Lawrence
Categorical hatred is the hatred of the mob, which makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob overflowing with righteousness, as at the crucifixion, and before, and since.
- Wendell Berry
Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group.
- Carl Jung
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- GK Chesterton
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
The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is—a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
- Mark Twain