Herds Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

  Randolph Bourne

  Country, War, Father

  15 Copy quote

• No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shepherds, Different, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.86, Penguin

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Bud Grant

  Football, Nfl, Cows

  26 Copy quote

• The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Husband, Animal, Intelligent

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, 1609.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
  The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
  Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Shade, Murmuring

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.7

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense.

  Randolph Bourne

  War, Government, Groups

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1965). “The world of Randolph Bourne: an anthology edited”

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.

  Thomas Friedman

  Diversity, Source, Belching

  Thomas L. Friedman (2009). “Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America”, p.72, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Walter Scott

  Mother, Motherhood

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose”, p.8024, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

  Dennis Miller

  Death Penalty, Sometimes

  8 Copy quote

• When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Animal, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.33, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

  Courtney Love

  Mean, People, Dumb

  8 Copy quote

• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Technology, Investment Success

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  School, Unity, Cows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests - sometimes the very people doing the protesting have NO IDEA what they are talking about.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Talking, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  19 Copy quote

• I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Thinking, Sheep

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Elephants, Sound, Stores

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Notes From The Midnight Driver”, p.248, Scholastic Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

  James Wolcott

  Baby, Party, Emotional

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Feelings, Doubt, Church

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source