Mob

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

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)

“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

““... 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)