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«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.»
Author: Dorothea Lange
| Keywords:
battering, extricate, extricated, impressions, madden, maddening, meditate, mob, pause, thoughtfully, viewer, viewers
«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»
«The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had.»
«The mob is the mother of tyrants»
«The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
LED, mob, mobs, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, quietly, The Nose, under his nose, under your nose
«The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowingto the mob.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
flattering, kowtow, kowtowing, mob, the mob
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
«The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aurora, beast, boys, descending, engines, feather, houses, inflicting, insane, mob, outrage, outraged, outrages, persecutes, prank, pranks, put into action, put out, resembles, ruddier, ruddy, streaming, tar-and-feather, tar, The Beast, the mob, voluntarily, whip
«The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
gauntlet, mob, recommended, The Gauntlet
«The mob has many heads, but no brains»
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