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Quotes About Herd

I'm a superstar alien from another galaxy! Where is my herd?
~ Unknown
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
~ Unknown
Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.
~ Jim Butcher
A yielding shepherd could end up with a disobedient, rebellious herd.
~ Joanne Harris
joining the crowd is the only thing all men can do.
~ W.H. Auden
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
The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other's realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn't collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.
~ Dean Koontz
When most members of a community are vaccinated, they protect those who are not by eliminating the viral reservoirs in the population. The effect is known as 'herd immunity.'
~ Michael Specter
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
~ Louise Penny
This man had a huge and terrible conscience riding herd on a huge and terrible greed.
~ Louise Penny
Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave," he is like a sheep in the herd. It
~ Ludwig von Mises
When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory.
~ Jodi Picoult
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
~ Unknown
Ninety-nine percent of the things that ninety-nine percent of the people do are entirely predictable, when you have a few lead facts. Drunks, maniacs and pregnant women are the customary exceptions. Everyone has the suspicion he is utterly unique. But we are a herd animal, and we all turn to face into the wind.
~ John D. MacDonald
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
Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.
~ Marcel Proust
It is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
~ John Steinbeck
The group, the herd, which is any collection of children.
~ John Steinbeck
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, Untamed
Some of the foodstuffs being sold in the street, which I myself hated, were among Albertine's favorites, so that Françoise sent her kitchen-boy out to buy them, even if he perhaps felt it beneath his dignity to have to mingle in this way with the common herd. The cries sounded clearly in this quiet neighborhood, where noise was no longer a grievance for Françoise, and had become a source of pleasure to me.
~ Marcel Proust
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
~ Loren Eiseley
Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.
~ Matt Taibbi