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the mob

«Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.»
Author: Frederick The Great | About: Religion | Keywords: adores, idol, mob, the mob
«The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you»
«I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, wit»
«Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.»
«Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | About: Passion | Keywords: commits, mob, mobs, riot, rioting, riots, the mob
«It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: the mob
«Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses -- that man your navy, and recruit your army -- that have enabled you to defy the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair. You may call the people a mob; but do not forget that a mob too often speaks the sentiments of the people.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: navy, recruit, recruited, the mob
«There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.»
«It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: applauded, mob, the mob
«The mob has many heads, but no brains»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: mob, the mob

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