The Rabble Quotes

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. — Euripides

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. — Horace

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled? — Frank Herbert

Nothing flows from her, vile rabble. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. — Epicurus

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. — John Taylor Gatto

I'm a proud member of the rabble. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered. — Bryant McGill

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. — Charles Baudelaire

Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate. — Karen Azinger

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp. — W. E. B. Griffin

Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts. — Gayle Forman

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty. — John C. Calhoun

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. — Horace

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. — Andrew Johnson

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. — Jean De La Bruyere

And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth. — Ezra Pound

Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest. — Frank Herbert

I've had enough of organizations for a while, no matter how good the cause. I prefer being a free-agent rabble-rouser. Dan — Neal Shusterman

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a member of the rabble in good standing. — Westbrook Pegler

There are perhaps more of the qualities that matter among the ignorant then among the learned. But again, what a vile thing the rabble is! — Virginia Woolf

ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE the overriding issue for the ragamuffin rabble is the person of Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning