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mob rule

noun as in nihilism

noun as in reign of terror

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These days, instead, we witness elections followed by majoritarian mob rule—what Fareed Zakaria has called “illiberal democracy.”

They knew it was only here that great things happened, the division of riches and mob-rule.

Plato has no distinct name except δημοκρατία παράνομος, for the bad democracy which Polybius calls ὀχλοκρατία, “mob-rule.”

In this way did between seventy and eighty citizens testify their sympathy for him and their reprobation of mob rule.

The masses distrusted him as a cottonocrat; the middle-classes as an out-and-out democrat and therefore an advocate of mob-rule.

How quickly do its people dispense with their men of science and turn to superstition and mob rule for hope of survival?

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On this page you'll find 183 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mob rule, such as: chaos, confusion, disorder, lawlessness, nihilism, and rebellion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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