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

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

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.

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

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

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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

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