Quotes about Mob
I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
— Psalm 26:5
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
— GK Chesterton
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
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.
— Acts 21:35
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
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
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
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
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people revert to a mob.
— Frank Herbert
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
— Oscar Wilde
So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.
— Robert Frost