Mob Behavior Quotes

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

So you [Romans] when you have got together in a body, let yourselves be guided by those whom singly you would never think of being advised by.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)