Mob commonly refers to a crowd of people (from Latin mobile vulgus, meaning "fickle commoners").
Mob or mobbing may also refer to:
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Famous quotes containing the word mob:
“A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody’s interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“The mob in silence leaves their prince’s side,
And to the coming ruler gives its love,
And is with mobs the custom.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)