Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day"
Herds quotes
Herds
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Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle"
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd."
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"The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]"
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"If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out."
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"Sometimes you just have the thin the herd."
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"and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty."
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"Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns."
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"Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd."
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"All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd."
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"We ran like a herd of wild cattle."
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"I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads."
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"Not, like, that, boychik, you sound like a herd of elephants charging through a music store."
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"I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them."
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"Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd."
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