“It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick.”
Charles Dickens
“My best advice: if you go to Las Vegas enjoy the food and shows and don’t gamble. If you must gamble, don’t drink. If you have zero control and have to drink and gamble, expect the worst outcome and the odds are you’ll not be disappointed.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason”
William Penn
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
Washington Irving
“This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.”
Dorothea Lange
“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
Hannah Arendt
