Mob Quotes - page 2

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob. (Herman Melville)
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Government run by organized money is the same as government run by the organized mob. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees. (Martin Luther)
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed. View quote
Fran Drescher
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. View quote
Beau Willimon
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. View quote
Ray Stannard Baker
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. View quote
William Powell
Men of repute, including the staunchest patriots such as Samuel Adams and Jonathan Mayhew, expressed their abhorrence of mobs and of all licentious proceedings in general; but many were nevertheless disposed to think, with good Deacon Tudor, that in this particular instance "the universal Obhorrance of the Stamp Act was the cause of the Mob's riseing." It would be well to punish the mob, but punishing the mob would not cure the evil which was the cause of the mob... (Carl L. Becker)
If a bare majority can change the fundamental rules that govern an institution, then there are no rules. Senate rules today are whatever the majority decides they are that morning. What distinguishes an institution from a flash mob is that its rules endure. They can be changed, of course. But only by significant supermajorities. That's why constitutional changes require two-thirds of both houses plus three-quarters of the states. If we could make constitutional changes by majority vote, there would be no Constitution. As of today, the Senate effectively has no rules. Congratulations, Harry Reid. Finally, something you will be remembered for. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
We have been entertained with a great variety of phrases, to avoid calling this sort of people a mob. Some call them shavers, some call them geniuses. The plain English is, gentlemen, most probably a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tars. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it. View quote
John Lennon