Tamora Pierce Quotes

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.

The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy!

Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

We are sitting on many powder kegs. Whether it's Ferguson, or St Louis, or like the other night, or Baltimore. Or different parts of Chicago.

Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?