Mob Quotes

On crowds, passion, and reason lost together.

A mob, in these quotes, is passion that has outrun reason — a theme writers and historical figures return to when describing crowd behavior and its costs. The subject overlaps with our crowd quotes page for readers interested in group psychology.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Abraham Lincoln

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Quotes by William Penn

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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Quotes by Ida B. Wells

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Only the mob takes the Fifth.

Quotes by Eric Swalwell

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.

Quotes by Doug Baldwin

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Quotes by Diogenes

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

Quotes by Debi Mazar

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

Quotes by Ashraf Ghani

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Several quotes here come from historical figures reflecting soberly on real episodes of mob violence and its aftermath. For related themes of unrest and feeling, see our chaos and emotion collections.