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«Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns»
Author: Cardinal de Retz | Keywords: instantaneous, mob
«Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances»
«Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions»
«A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: mob
«Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous. What have we to offer the world besides the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?»
«A mob is the scum that rises up most when the nation boils»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: boils, mob
«A mob is the scum that rises utmost when the nation boils»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: mob, utmost
«Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: mob
«It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: applauded, mob, the mob
«A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.»