The psychology of the masses

The crowds are naturally crazy, so the crowds that cheer passionately for their favorite singer or the football team they support live a moment of hallucination and madness, and the crowds that line the sides of the road for hours to see a famous figure or a great leader pass by for fleeting moments are also crazy. So if the crowds love a religion or a man, they follow him to death, as Jews do with their prophet and fanatic Christians with their monks and Muslims with their sheikhs... The crowds today burn what they worshiped yesterday, and change their ideas as they change their shirts.