Quotations on mob


It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
-Seneca
A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
-Thomas Fuller
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
-Diogenes
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
-John Dryden
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
-Cardinal de Retz
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
-Samuel Johnson
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
-William Rounseville Alger
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
-D. H. Lawrence
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.
-Francis Bacon