Mob - Quotes

A group is extraordinarily credulous and open to influence, it has no critical faculty, and the improbable does not exist for it. It thinks in images, which call one another up by association (just as they arise with individuals in states of free imagination), and whose agreement with reality is never checked by any reasonable function. The feelings of a group are always very simple and very exaggerated, so that a group knows neither doubt nor uncertainty. - Sigmund Freud

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them. - William Hazlitt

Mobs were ugly and vicious but they were also purposeful, congregating around a wound in the populace's psyche like white blood cells around an infection in the body. They were safety valves for frustration and dissatisfaction; they united a population against a real or imagined enemy. - Paul McAuley

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization. - Calvin Coolidge

The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, as the first wine-cup leads to the long revel. - Lord Byron

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains. - Dan Simmons