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Mob

Mob commonly refers to a crowd of people (from Latin mobile vulgus, meaning "fickle commoners").

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Famous quotes containing the word mob:

    “A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ““... A nation has to take its natural course
    Of Progress round and round in circles
    From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
    Until the eddy of it eddies out.””
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The mob has many heads but no brains.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)