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

  Albert Einstein

  Animal, Men, Flags

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• The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

  Aeschylus

  Rain, Heaven, Demeter

  Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Want, Conformity, Losing Yourself

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• Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Vision, Painting, Committees

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• Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Christian, Animal, Men

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• People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.

  Jim Goad

  Racism, People, Personality

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• 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.

  David Icke

  Unique, Race, Tiny

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• Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Track, Manipulation

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

  Antony C. Sutton

  Gold, Lasts, Reason

  Antony C. Sutton (1977). “The War on Gold”, Concord Books

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

  Neal Barnard

  Running, Guy, Humans

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  People, Solitude, Relaxation

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Running, Want, Ifs

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• 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.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Animal, Men, Special

  Letter to James F. Morton (10 February 1923), published in "Selected Letters Vol. I", (p. 208), 1965.

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• And what the people but a herd confus'd,
  A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
  Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
  They praise, and they admire, they know not what;
  And know not whom, but as one leads the other;
  And what delight to be by such extoll'd,
  To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
  Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

  John Milton

  People, Tongue, Delight

  John Milton (1831). “Milton's Poetical Works”, p.40

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• ...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Jobs, Kids, Animal

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• I was very disturbed when Jesus found a demon in a guy, and he put the demon in a herd of pigs, then sent them off a cliff. What did the pigs do? I could never figure that out. It just seemed very un-Christian. Technically, I'm an agnostic, but I definitely believe in hell -- especially after watching the fall TV schedule.

  Matt Groening

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "Questions for: Matt Groening". www.nytimes.com. December 27, 1998.

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• and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Conducting, Forty

  Charles Dickens (2004). “A Christmas Carol (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.27, Sparklesoup LLC

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Sublime, Legends

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• But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Vision, Common, Speak

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John R. Williams (1999). “Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy ; with the Unpublished Scenarios for the Walpurgis Night and the Urfaust”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?" "Oh, I can see you, all right... I can see you riding out on your beautiful palomino checking the herd... There you sit, silhouetted against the evening sky... Sucking your thumb and holding that stupid blanket!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Beautiful, Kings, Stupid

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• Nerd herd, focus. You're here to help the fledglings. Dour One and Dour Two aren't important," said Aphrodite. "Dr. Seuss reference. I like it," Stark said, giving me a check-me-out-I've-always-read-books hottie grin. Aphrodite frowned at him. "I said focus, not flirt.

  P. C. Cast

  Book, Flirting, Two

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