Top 1200 Herd Mentality Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of 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.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

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

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

It doesn't matter if it's cards, doesn't matter if I am racing home from dinner or something, I just want to be the first to do it. That's just kind of my mentality. That's been my mentality for a long time. It's kind of the way I was raised.

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

O imitators, you slavish herd!

It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.

I've loosened up over the years about materials. I started off working for Matthew Barney, and that's what his mentality is. Even while we were making pieces, like a mold, the mold would make sense conceptually with the piece. That's how deep his symbology goes. I've loosened up over the years because I very much had that mentality.

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

I don't want to follow the herd.

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

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Our culture is set up on a feud mentality, or a "Housewives" mentality, that women just fight. And it's such a shallow way to exist as far as our evolution is concerned, and our culture is concerned. It's fun to watch women fight, in a storytelling way, but in the world, women shouldn't be seen as a threat to other women.

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

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

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

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

There's guys who train hard. There's guys who believe they're real tough. But there's only a certain amount of guys who believe - like, really believe - they should be the champion. I know I have that mentality, and I know other guys who have that mentality.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

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

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

We ran like a herd of wild cattle.

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

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

Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

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

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

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

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

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.

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.

When you become a Christian, all of a sudden you start to live on this rapture mentality, like tomorrow the world's going to end. You live in that frenzy. We come from the streets, so the mentality was like, 'Yo, dude, what's up? You're not going to tell me I'm not down with God. What's up!'

People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

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

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd.

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

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar 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.

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.