Herds Quotes

196 Herds quotes by 167 unique authors

If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by… — Robert Morley
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has… — Aaron Hill
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not… — Edward Bernays
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. — Larry McMurtry
It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood… — John Grant
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
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. — H. L. Mencken
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
Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. — Mark Twain
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are… — Henry David Thoreau
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

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