For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.
None of our political writers. . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons. . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community. . . the Mob.
A hungry mob is an angry mob.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
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.
Our supreme governors, the mob.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return. . . One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.
Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.