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It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. — Henry David Thoreau

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action. — Jim Rogers

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

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle — Aleister Crowley

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I'm just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions. — P.C. Cast

If idiots can't think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?

A herd following the flock. — Kevin Focke

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

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

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows. — Bud Grant

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

I don't want to follow the herd. — Alain Robert

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

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd. — Algernon Blackwood

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

He herd that it was some kid's suicide note. I really hope it wasn't because then I don't know if I like the ending — Stephen Chbosky

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. — Edward Abbey

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

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. — George R R Martin

the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. As — George R R Martin

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes you different from the rest of the herd?" He winks at me. "My seven inch cock, of course. — Callie Hart

While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust. — Frans De Waal

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Be nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye! — Geoffrey Chaucer

I'm the leader of this herd of cats," she responded. "I doubt my sanity every day. — Mercedes Lackey

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

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

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

That's precisely what my novel is about. It's called Demons, and it's a description of how these demons entered the herd of swine. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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. — Wayne Dyer

We ran like a herd of wild cattle. — William C. Oates

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

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

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are. — Evan Osnos

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. — Maria V. Snyder

The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. — Doc Holliday

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. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You know what you call a herd of unicorns? A blessing. True. — Matthew Quick

Herd Mentality is when you follow a person or a trend just because it has been a hit once or twice. — Nikita Dudani

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

Neverfell shepherded her herd of frightened, woolly suspicions. — Frances Hardinge

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing — Jessica Livingston

If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit. — Wayne W. Dyer

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill. — John Taylor Gatto

A big glowing red dude with the head of a wolf guarded a herd of ... Were those unicorns? — Rick Riordan

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals. — Charles Portis

Adam wondered if there was a true smile among this herd of wealthy animals. — Maggie Stiefvater

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd. — Dennis Miller

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! — Mandy Hale

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd. — Janine Turner

And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world. — Charles Baudelaire

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them. — Shelley Duvall

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. — Gary Johnson

Give your typical employee a profitable corporation, and, he is mostly likely to sell it to buy a fancier suit for his next job interview. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. — Bertrand Russell

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time. — Albert Einstein

One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. — Heinrich Muller

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

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. — Julia Quinn

Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution. — Christopher Josephs

Some people respect some people only because some people respect them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The fact is that they always go after your weakest point - the wolves chase down the weakest sheep in the herd. — Haruki Murakami

I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon ... [p. 48] — Siri Hustvedt

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. — G.K. Chesterton

He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong: so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Esk wouldn't have known what a collective noun was if it had spat in her eye, but she knew there was a herd of goats and a coven of witches. — Terry Pratchett

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

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd. — Soren Kierkegaard

Why follow the herd? Be you - fearlessly. Make the herd stronger instead of just blending in. — Cindy Tansin

The venal herd.
[Lat., Venale pecus.] — Juvenal

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. — George S. Patton

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd. — Michel De Montaigne

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. — Jean-Henri Fabre

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

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

I first suspected something was amiss when I exited the coffee shop on Greenup Street and was knocked down by a herd of bison. — Joshua Palmatier

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. — Charlie Munger

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

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. — Dennis Miller

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

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd. — Kim Basinger

Seconds are slowly, slowly passing by; like a lazy herd of elephants, heavy and laborious. — Gary Edward Gedall

This process of cutting a potential wife from the herd was proving far more difficult than he'd thought. — Debra Holland

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

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

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

If Jesus, Jesse James, and a herd of pink robot unicorns strolled in walking on water, this bunch wouldn't even look up. — Richard Kadrey

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

I believe in Individualism. Find out what makes you unique and develop it. Don't run with the herd. Set yourself apart so you can stand out. — Monica Koldyke Miller

United a herd is an army; divided a herd is fair game. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

I'm a superstar alien from another galaxy! Where is my herd? — Lizzie Simon

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection. — James Surowiecki

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal. — Albert Einstein