Top 350 Herd Quotes & Sayings

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."

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 herd crushes out the man.

I don't want to follow the herd.

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.

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 . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Our conversations on 'The Herd' are irreverent, insightful and original. That's a great combination.

Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

Be the exceptional being who separates themselves from the herd and the fate of the herd.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

We ran like a herd of wild cattle.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

A lot of people are not comfortable being apart from the group, from the whole herd, and listening to the inner voice. They just follow what the crowd does and wear what the crowd wears and think what the crowd thinks. They get very caught up in doing what the world says is the cool thing to do and living the way the rest of the world lives. Once we make a decision to break away from that and not be part of the herd anymore - by going inside and finding our own voice - then life just becomes magical.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

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 hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

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 exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

The job of every president is to ride herd over Congress.

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 of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.