“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”
Introduction to the Critical Journal of Philosophy, cited in W. Kaufmann, Hegel (1966), p. 56
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“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
Song lyrics
“Nor do I care about the mob or about Fortune.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Né del vulgo mi cal, né di Fortuna.
Canzone 114, st. 3
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“A mob is still a mob, even if it's on your side.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Adams as portrayed in the HBO Miniseries John Adams (2008); this has sometimes been cited as having been actually said or written by the historical John Adams.
Misattributed
“There can be no free speech in a mob: free speech is one thing a mob can't stand.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Source: 'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, 110, 1861, p. 281
“From this amphibious ill-born mob began
That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Pt. I, l. 132. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
Guido Ceronetti (1927–2018) Italian poet, writer, journalist and translator
The Silence of the Body: Materials for the Study of Medicine (II silenzio del corpo: Materiali per studio di medicina, 1979), translated by Michael Moore, in The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine, London and New York: Verso, 2003, p. 296 https://books.google.it/books?id=iFRwpEpgCKUC&pg=PA296.