Quotes on Mob Rule

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.