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Quotes About Herd mentality

The multitude is always in the wrong.
~ Wentworth Dillon
directing their narrow little lives by narrow little formulas—herd-creatures, flocking together and patterning their lives by one another's opinions, failing of being individuals and of really living life because of the childlike formulas by which they were enslaved. 
~ Jack London
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
~ William Wordsworth
Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley
~ Sybil G. Brinton
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
~ Charles Mackay
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.
~ Sigmund Freud
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The world is composed of folks who can think only in common, in bands.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Baz? fikirler ve duygular vard?r ki ancak kitle halindeki bireylerde ortaya ç?kar veya eyleme dönü?ür.
~ Gustave Le Bon
We serve nature's purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm!
~ James Luceno
Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
~ Dan Rather
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. Look at the way things are. I'm no fucken genius or anything, but these spazzos are in charge of my every twitch. What I'm starting to think is maybe only the dumb are safe in this world, the ones who roam with the herd, without thinking about every little thing. But see me? I have to think about every little fucken thing.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit." The shit I refer to is living with yourself when you ignore what you know to be right and true and instead follow the "offal" instructions of others who are afraid to leave the herd and want you to be just like everybody else.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
~ Charles Mackay
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
~ Charles Mackay
No, when the herd wanted to take refuge in an idea, it preferred to be blind to that idea's opposite.
~ Charmaine Craig
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
It's called Head On," Winston offered, unprompted. "Ninety-nine wolves racing blindly into a wall to symbolize a herd mentality, a lack of courage in diverging from the norm.
~ Dan Brown
A mob is a brainless thing.
~ Dan Simmons
We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
~ Vivienne Westwood
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.
~ William Wordsworth