Herd Quotes

203 quotes by 172 authors

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. — Paul Rusesabagina
Most people donâ€™t really want to think independently or make decisions; theyâ€™re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group… — Blanche Barton
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd… — John Wyndham
A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy… — Ray Comfort
Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together. — Glenn Beck
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained… — Michael Davitt
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle — Aleister Crowley
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. — Mark Twain
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in… — Bertrand Russell
Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats. — Mark R. Woodward
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that… — Walter Lippmann
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide… — Walter Zettl
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. — Charlie Munger
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west. — Colum McCann
The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead… — Larry McMurtry
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly. — Dan Rather

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