Herds Quotes

• Always drink upstream from the herd.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Leadership, Drinking

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Poop, Ifs

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• Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

  William Wordsworth

  Reflection, Peer Pressure, Habit

  'Grant that by this' (1822)

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

  James Surowiecki

  Animal, Together, Protection

  "That Uncertain Feeling" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2008.

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

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Spiritual, Atheist

  "Glenn Beck: Don't follow herd on the economy" by Glenn Beck, edition.cnn.com. February 28, 2008.

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

  Dan Rather

  Moving, One Direction, Literature

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

  Edgar Fiedler

  Business, Mistake, Independent

  Across the Board The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational, Irrelevant and Irreverent June 1977

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• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Science, Individuality, Individual Morality

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 116

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• You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

  Renny Harlin

  Giving Up, Healthy, Challenges

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Important, Individual

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.172, Routledge

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

  John Dryden

  Leadership, Thinking, Literature

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 533

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• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

  Charles Mackay

  Ignorance, Crowds, Madness

  Charles Mackay (1996). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and ConfusiÃ3n de Confusiones”, John Wiley & Sons

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• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Greatness, Vanity, Needs

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

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Creative, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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

  Loren Eiseley

  Freedom, Animal, Differences

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

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Thinking, Patriotism

  "In Praise of Dissent". New York Times, December 16, 1956.

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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, Military, Bad Ass

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Wall, Believe

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

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Common

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.112, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Want, Ifs

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Respect, Self Esteem, Sacrifice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).

  Merold Westphal

  Sports, Art, Sex

  "Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society". Book by Merold Westphal, 1987.

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