Michel Patini Quotes

The public is a ferocious beast: one must chain it up or flee from it.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

People in the States live for finding something they can lose their minds over. They have nothing else going on. They watch a show and there's a joke and everybody's up in arms.

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

It's not that the film is violent, it's that people have an issue with violence right now.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

I don't have to deal with the issues of the daily news cycle.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I don't relate to the 'Twilight' books or movies at all, but I'm obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon - all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

To pass a big idea in this town. You almost need social unrest

The multitude is always in the wrong.

We have too much legislation by clamor, tumult and pressure.

There is nothing more dangerous than debate in a crowd.

People who are satisfied with a prospective [presidential] appointment do not make any particular noise about it, but those who do not like it clamor.

The best picture I can give of the French Nation, is that of Cattle before a Thunder Storm.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

Popular movements respond to the ups and downs of the headlines, to some extent