Top 1200 Herd Mentality Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

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 be trampled to death by them.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians.

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.

Travis: The Aphrodite kids were ripping each other’s clothes and throwing lipstick and jewellery. It was like a rabid herd of wild Bratz.

Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

To win is my mentality.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

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 to scatter.

Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?" "Of course there is," said the Master. "How would you describe it?" "Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.

They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

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 having a good time only an hour after a murder!

Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store.

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there

Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.

And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.