The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees.
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"Let us therefore beware of the Jews, and their synagogues, and let us burn their synagogues, and let us destroy their houses, and let us take away their prayer-books and Talmuds, and let us forbid the…"
"Christianity is nothing but a continual exercise in feeling that you have no sin although you sin, but that your sins are thrown on Christ."
"The peasants deserve death for three reasons: they have broken their oath of allegiance, they have committed murder, and they have robbed monasteries."
"Their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, should be taken from them."
"Even if the Antichrist appears, what greater evil can he do than what you have done and do daily?"
German theologian whose 95 Theses (1517) launched the Protestant Reformation and broke the Catholic Church's monopoly on Western Christianity. Closely associated with Philipp Melanchthon (Lutheran systematizer) and John Calvin (later Reformer who built on Luther's break). For an intellectual contrast, see Pope Leo X, Renaissance pope (1513-1521) — Leo X's indulgence sales triggered Luther's break and Leo excommunicated him in 1521 — Luther's entire Reformation is structured as a direct answer to the indulgence-funded Vatican Leo represented.
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People caught up in crowd frenzy rarely think about whether change will actually improve things; they just want something different. When the new situation turns out worse, they demand another change, and another. Each swap brings a bigger problem than the last, trading minor annoyances for serious threats. Restless dissatisfaction without clear goals leads to progressively harsher outcomes, not reform.
Luther watched his Reformation get hijacked by radicals like Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' War rebels who pushed beyond his theological reforms into violent upheaval. Though he challenged papal authority, he feared mob-driven social revolution and urged obedience to civil princes. This quote captures his disillusionment with followers who turned spiritual reform into chaotic political revolt, confirming his conservative instinct that disciplined change beats populist fervor.
Luther's early modern era (1483-1546) seethed with upheaval: the 1525 German Peasants' War killed roughly 100,000, Anabaptist radicals seized Munster in 1534, and princes warred over religion culminating in the Schmalkaldic conflicts. Printing presses spread pamphlets that inflamed crowds faster than authorities could respond. Luther wrote amid genuine fear that reform movements he sparked would collapse into anarchy, making his warnings about volatile mobs deeply personal.
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