A river is easier to channel than to stop.

A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

panicked people didn't listen to reason and didn't want to hear the truth.

A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.

It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

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