Honore de Balzac Quotes

People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

The audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Human beings don't want to just enjoy something by themselves. They want to share that emotion - they want everyone around them to enjoy it like they enjoy it or hate it like they hate it. That's what makes a video spread.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

… a crowd is more than the sum of the individuals who compose it. The collective body thinks and acts in ways which the component units thinking and acting for themselves would never sanction and would often reprobate. In general the action of the crowd is more emotional and less intellectual than the action of an individual. The nerve counts for more, the brain for less. Waves of sentiment or cruelty pass through the collective body with a force which the individuals who compose it find it difficult to comprehend, when they are removed from the contagion of their neighbours…

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

If you see one negative person a lot of people start to get negative, and that's not good for any time.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.

Crowd action is the outcome of agreement based on concurrence of emotion rather than of thought.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

It's easier to die if others around you are dying.

A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

I think we are affected by others in all kinds of ways. I do understand what it's like to wish to control the conditions under which we can be affected by other human beings, but none of us really are.

A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.