Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

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.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

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.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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.

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.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.