(41 quotes found)
“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
“Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.”
Frederick The Great
“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
“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
“Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.”
Seneca
“From this amphibious ill-born mob beganThat vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”
Daniel Defoe
“The mob has many heads, but no brains”
Thomas Fuller
“A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains”
