Herd Quotes

203 Herd quotes by 172 unique authors

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. — Edward Abbey
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to… — William Hazlitt
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. — Edgar Fiedler
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in… — Bertrand Russell
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with… — Plato
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of… — Heinrich Heine
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
We ran like a herd of wild cattle. — William C. Oates
I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them… — Matt Groening
Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing — Jessica Livingston
First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd… — Og Mandino
But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They… — Anton Szandor LaVey
The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another… — Garrett Hardin
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. — Jean-Henri Fabre
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I… — Erik Naggum
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of… — Gene Spafford
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists. — Ben Horowitz
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and… — Sergei Lukyanenko
I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go… — Zhuangzi
We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes… — Jill McCorkle
We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a… — Tracy K. Smith
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves… — Thomas Gray
I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I… — Gottfried Leibniz

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