Paul Frank Baer quotes

Paul Frank Baer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.”
“I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.”
“I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.”
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.”
“You don't have to go with the crowd.”

Source : "Alek Wek: 'You don't have to go with the crowd'". Interview with Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2014.
“For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.”
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”
“Hereâ€™s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.”
“I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.”

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