#mobs

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#afraid #along #been #being #bigots

...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own. ↗

— Steve Toltz

#mobs #environmentalism

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dictators #each #flourish #made #mobs

Mobs have passions, not brains. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#mobs #passion #intelligence

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence #mob-rule #mobs #people #intelligence