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Quotes About Herd

This is a paradoxical case where the normally presumed "safety in numbers" is a deadly betrayer instead of a savior. Given a choice, going it alone beats The Buffalo Jump every time, but it's very hard to bolt from the herd.
~ Unknown
Sürü! Senin ilk görevin çoban?ndan kurtulmakt?r!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When most people come to believe the same thing, large gaps open up between price and value.
~ Michael J. Mauboussin
for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.
~ Unknown
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
As youth flowers into maturity, the barrier between nerd and herd grows taller and thicker and begins to sprout thorns.
~ Natalie Angier
Humans were herd animals, like the moose. Sometimes even the most independent needed to clump up, hip and shoulder touching, protecting their soft flanks from the wolves.
~ Nevada Barr
Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.
~ Unknown
Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
When a woman trespasses amongst the stones of the ancestors, she belongs to the Echraidhe. She becomes Echraidhe. Like horse and herd, she belongs to the tribe. Like me, like you.
~ Nicola Griffith
If the world is condemned to mediocrity, if heroes are no more than statues and mythical figures and if adventure is for madmen then let us condemn ourselves to glory, let us become myth and let us be madmen, for the herd is already too numerous.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Servitude and freedom—this is in the last and deepest analysis the differentia by which we distinguish vegetable and animal existence. A herd that huddles together trembling in the presence of danger, a child that clings weeping to its mother, a man desperately striving to force a way into his God—all these are seeking to return out of the life of animal freedom into the vegetal servitude from which they were emancipated.
~ Oswald Spengler
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
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
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~ Pam Houston
Like every other guide or wildlife lover who is eventually eaten or trampled, I felt that I had a bond with this herd that would make me safe with them. I wanted to try my luck again.
~ Peter Allison
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.
~ Leviticus 1:2
“If oneís offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
~ Leviticus 3:1
In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
~ Matthew 8:30
There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
~ Mark 5:11
He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
~ Mark 5:13
There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
~ Luke 8:32