Quotes About Herd mentality

Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.

His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.

There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

went out for sports as others did, in an affable herd.

the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

I enjoy being a lemming, we line up to do everything together.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense.

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

Like lemmings voting for steeper cliff faces

8. Follow the herd instead of your head

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

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.