John Layfield Quotes

I want to continuously instigate, whatever it may be.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

We can set the spark that lights the fire.

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

I think it's cool to provoke something in people.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

I want to move people.

You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

There is nothing more dangerous than debate in a crowd.

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

Few orators have known how to achieve such admirable results by dint of repetition. Besides, Lenin always felt his audience. He never rose too high above its level, nor did he ever omit to descend to it at just the necessary moment, in order not to break the continuity of the hypnosis which dominated the will of his flock; and more than any one he realized that a mob is like a horse that wants to be firmly bestrode and spurred, that wants to feel the hand of a master.

Lead by example but never from fear.

I want to inflict some change on people.

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

We need the fans to get right behind us and push us on.

When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

An audience is in many respects no more than a mob under loose control.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.