Herds Quotes - Page 8

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Law, Assuming, Mankind

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• Seek to know God in your closets, call upon him in the fields. Follow the directions of the Book of Mormon, and pray over, and for your families, your cattle, your flocks, your herds, your corn, and all things that you possess [see Alma 34:18-27]; ask the blessing of God upon all your labors, and everything that you engage in.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Blessing, Corn

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• Like a red morn that ever yet betokened,
  Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,
  Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds,
  Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

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

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Kindness, Men

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• So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Men, Animal

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Confused, Men

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• [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Ignorance, Rivers

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• I don't want to follow the herd.

  Alain Robert

  Want

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Fate

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• Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very few who can really see. Like you, he has an obsession with masks; he is a seer as you and I are. The common herd, of course thinks that he is mad.*****************You shall see what sort of man Ensor is, and what a marvellous insight he has into the invisible realm where our vices are created... those vices for which our faces make masks.

  Jean Lorrain

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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• The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Book, Thinking, Adventurous Life

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Companionship, Creatures

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• The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Reflection, Ideas

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.354

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Party, Political, Today

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

  Seth Godin

  Friday, Media, Black

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

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Sacrifice, Liberty, Identity

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1943). “The Menace of the Herd: Or Procrustes at Large”, p.49, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Horse, Eye, Animal

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star”, p.164, Random House

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• Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Hypocrite, Intelligent

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.80, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beautiful, Powerful, Feet

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

  Edward Abbey

  Land, Four, Ranchers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• 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.

  William Hazlitt

  Order, Stupidity, Way

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.89

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• But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Mean, Fighting

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.364, Routledge

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• We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best.

  Plato

  Real, Men, Political

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

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