We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.