Quotes About Herd

I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

The mob has many heads but no brains.

Herd immunity is, it turns out, not incredibly easy to understand. It took me quite a bit of reading before I fully grasped it. But understanding herd immunity is essential to understanding why we vaccinate the way we do.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.

There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd

what's more, he believed that collectively they were even bigger suckers than they were individually.

And the least stupid, fleeing the herd where fate has penned them fast, take refuge in the wards of opium, so much for what is news around the world.

his expression set in that neutral mask so beloved by prosecutors eyeing potential witnesses, or lions checking out a herd of elk.

The three wolves didn't know that the sheep herd had three dogs in it. Big ones.

In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy.

The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.

But far more numerous was the herd of stfch, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.

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. 

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

Sürü yeniden toplanacaksa, sürü d???na itilmiÅŸlerin yeniden bulunmas? gerekliydi.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.

ABAC'TOR, noun [Latin from abigo, ab and ago, to drive.] In law, one that feloniously drives away or steals a herd or numbers of cattle at once, in distinction from one that steals a sheep or two.

The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self-imposed totalitarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives, and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose-step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home.

Inevitably, being right will become more important than being kind, gracious, or loving. Thinning the herd will become more important than expanding the kingdom. Unity will take a back seat to uniformity.3