"Who deserves greatness, deserves your hate; and your affections are a sick man's appetite, who desires most that which would increase his evil. He that depends upon your favors swims with fins of lead and hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust ye? With every minute you do change a mind, and call him noble that was now your hate, him vile that was your garland. What's the matter, that in these several places of the city you cry against the noble Senate, who, under the gods, keep you in awe, which else would feed on one another? What's their seeking?"
It seems, that Coriolanus cannot please the people as hard as he may (or may not, as it seems) try. From the very beginning of act I, the citizens are complaining about Coriolanus. They even confide in Menenius, and when Coriolanus enters the stage, he knew they were talking about him. Coriolanus seems very frustrated with these citizens. He is having trouble understanding how they can be so ungrateful and dislike him so much, when he keeps them safe and fights for their country. He seems to believe he doesn't deserves this treatment. His want of their approval could "increase his evil" and bring forth a destruction.
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