Quotation Explorer - 'Herd'

Morality is herd instinct in the individual. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. - John Dryden
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. - Frank R. Stockton
Bisonburger from the herd that appeared in 'Dances With Wolves.'
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else... - H.P. Lovecraft
For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. - G. K. Chesterton
Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd. - Marty Rubin
An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You can stop a raging forest fire, a herd of stampeding buffalo or even a runaway freight train, but you can’t stop a good man". - John Paul Warren
Nowadays, our lifestyle is to follow the herd than to use the head. - Prabakaran Thirumalai
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - William Wordsworth
In life be your own person, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by the naysayers who follow the herd. - Aaron Lauritsen
If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the people who question things are considered black sheep and the people who give you the answers, Wolves - Theodore Coldiron
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle. - Albert Einstein
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. - Voltaire
No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats. - Malayan Proverb
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck
A person’s true intention behind his/her nice & advisory word manifests itself through the ground action shown by the people who follow him/her like a herd. - Anuj Somany
And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats! - Hope Mirrlees
She was gracious and yet fading, like an old statue in a garden, that symbolizes the weather through which it has endured, and is not so much the work of man as the work of wind and rain and the herd of the seasons, and though formed in men's image is a figure of doom. - Djuna Barnes
Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The common herd. - William Shakespeare
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Always drink upstream from the herd. - Will Rogers
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