Pierre... felt that the sound of his words, regardless of the thought they contained, would be heard less than the sound of the animated nobleman's words. ... Pierre not only had not succeeded in speaking, he had been rudely interrupted, pushed aside, turned away from as a common enemy. This had happened not because they were displeased with the meaning of what he said—that had been forgotten, after the great number of speeches that followed it—but because, for inspiration, a crowd needs to have a tangible object of love and a tangible object of hatred. Pierre had become the latter.

— War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky (Page 679)