Best Mob Mentality Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Uncharted Mind

“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.”

People Humans Mankind People Quotes Herd Mentality People Suck Mob Mentality Bystander Bystander Effect

Source: The Paragon

“Mob mentality rules when people are anxious and scared, and looking for someone to blame for their unhappiness and hurts and fears.”

Fear Mob Mentality

Book:Beautiful Shining People

Source: Beautiful Shining People

“Cynical views of humans as a mindless mob, incapable of behaving intelligently and peacefully, are used to justify keeping us apart and denying us roles as autonomous actors.”

Politics Technology Autonomy Mob Mentality Media Theory

Book:Team Human

Source: Team Human

“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.”

Freedom Ego Oppression Freedom Of Speech Absurdity Atrocities Mob Do The Right Thing Stand Your Ground Mob Mentality

Author:Criss Jami

“For the instinct of imitation and absence of courage govern society and the mob alike.”

Fear Acceptance Shame Followers Willpower Groupthink Mob Mentality Embarassment

Book:Sodom and Gomorrah

Source: Sodom and Gomorrah

“But nothing could assuage the unconscious fury of our new and tragic understanding, our sense of having been cheated, our fear, for, however we looked for it, we could not find a fit object for our disgust and despair, and so we attacked everything in our way with an equal and infinite passion…”

Violence Range Frustration Fury Mob Mentality

Book:The Melancholy of Resistance

Source: The Melancholy of Resistance

“When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.”

Funny Death Humorous Trials Anticipation Buzz Flies Dry Humor Mob Mentality A Tale Of Two Cities Swarm Blue Flies

Book:a tale of two cities

Source: a tale of two cities

“Pilate was required to release one of the prisoners, so he gave the mob the choice of Jesus or Barabbas, a notorious murderer and insurrectionist-in otherwords, someone who incites mobs. Again, the mob "spoke with one voice" demanding "with loud shouts" that Jesus be crucified.”

Demonic Mob Mentality Circular Reasoning Ann Coulter

Book:Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

Source: Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”

Propaganda 1945 Post Truth Mob Mentality Big Lie Orwellianism Rule By Fear

Book:Réflexions sur le mensonge

Source: Réflexions sur le mensonge

“Our media regularly publishes hit pieces, and a large portion of the people are like its attack dogs. One might say that those are the useful idiots: they become like dogs, and their owner says, 'Sic 'em!”

Media Propaganda Persecution Mob Think For Yourself 1984 Mob Mentality Npc Hit Piece Stochastic Terrorism

Author:Criss Jami

“The mob was engaging in a performative group activity.”

Mob Online Abuse Online Harassment Mob Mentality Angry Mob

Book:Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“A mob has more tools at its disposal then individual actors do. Popularity—the quantity of clicks of use on any given time is tracked and exploited by algorithms online, and a mob is a critical mass. If thousands of people are linking to something about you, that will quickly become the first thing people see when they google your name, regardless of whether it's a fact checked news article or SmegmaDan69's video about what a bitch you are.”

Bullying Online Abuse Online Harassment Mob Mentality

Book:Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“A murder shared with many others, which is not only safe and permitted, but indeed recommended, is irresistible to the great majority of men.”

Violence Hatred Murder Mob Mentality Pogroms

Book:Crowds and Power

Source: Crowds and Power

“...when like-minded people get together, they often end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk to one another.”

Extremes Misinformation Rumors Polarization Mob Mentality Like Minded Cult Mentality

Book:On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

Source: On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done

“These pundits are community leaders of the sort—they validate feelings and provide guidance. Internet Inquisitors position themselves as authority figures and truth tellers; they confirm the mob's hatred, paranoia, and insecurities and directed towards the nearest combustible witch on their radar. They serve as morale boosters, assuring the mob that they are correct, that their path is righteous, and that it's the world that's wrong (or in this case, the person they're offering up as a sacrifice).”

Misogyny Witch Hunt Mob Mentality Sacrificial Victims Inciting Incident Mob Leader Self Styled Authority

Book:Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Source: Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“On a normal day, these people would be buying from the bakers, tailors, cordwainers, binders and candlemakers lining the boulevard. They’d be smiling and laughing, grumbling about the infernal heat, but manacle a man and offer him up to torment, and even the meekest soul surrendered itself to the devil.”

Cruelty Mob Mentality Public Shaming

Book:The Devil and the Dark Water

Source: The Devil and the Dark Water

“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

Hatred Nationalism Bigotry Mob Mentality Moral Panics Radical Right German Cosmopolitanism

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe