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Letter "T" » the mob
«You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths»
«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 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 only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
betters, oppress, the mob
«Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Force,
Hypocrisy,
Leadership
| Keywords:
following, lead, mob, mobs, the mob, The People
«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)
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«To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.»
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