Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him do.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.
The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.
I feel anxious for my children because tomorrow, if a mob surrounds them and asks, 'Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?' they will have no answer.
The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!
This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking.
The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.
The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with Adrenaline Mob.
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
It's a bit weird; everybody is trying to be different, but then they're exactly the same as whatever mob they hang out with.
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
Sometimes I'll get a bunch of my friends to pretend they're my fans and then I'll walk out on the street and I'll have them mob me just so I can prepare.
In Adrenaline Mob, I'm not the leader, but I'm on the board of directors, and that's OK. I'm not stressing out over every detail. I'm sharing the load.
The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army.
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.
In Mumbai people never mob you. They might come and talk to you, but they never make you uncomfortable.
Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.
My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.
'The Globe' is one of the most terrifying theatres in London. It's that mob element - everyone packed in and staring up at you.
When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.
What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.
The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has a mind, but no institutions, no organizations, no coherent unity, no history, no traditions.
Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.
I'd rather form my own party than ever join Ukip. We could call it the Widdy Mob. I'm joking.
I've always had lots of side projects in my life, but what's exciting for me is knowing that Adrenaline Mob is bigger than that.
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
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