Herds Quote by Algernon Blackwood Download Open image “Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.” — Algernon Blackwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Herds Individual May Slavery
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves to the… — Mahima Martel Copy Share Image
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them. — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win…This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands…But people who tamely allow slavery to be imposed on them without resorting to a defensive war are inevitably doomed to years of death and suffering-and far more of each than any war would bring to them…The army doesn't exist that… — Kenneth Roberts Copy Share
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
“It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains. — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The dusk rapidly deepened; the glades grew dark; the crackling of the fire and the wash of little waves along the rocky lake shore… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The psychology of places, for some imaginations at least, is very vivid; for the wanderer, especially, camps have their "note" either of welcome or… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“You know," he went on almost under his breath, "every man who thinks for himself and feels vividly finds he lives in a world… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an elusive scent,… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.” — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share Image
Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
