Voltaire Quote

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


Letter to Mademoiselle Quinault. As quoted in Charles Sainte-Beuve, "Lettres inédites de Voltaire," Causeries de Lundi (20 October 1856)


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

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

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

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