The herd instinct is
The herd instinct is the new chic! It’s like belonging to a club! Eugenia Sheppard
Herds
The manager asks how
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why – Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief Ernest Becker
Democratism and its allied
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
Some people are little
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither. Erik Naggum
The serious reader in
The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the … Read more
The Democratic party today
The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded. Emmett Tyrrell
The Germans, in the
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; … Read more
If you can influence
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious … Read more
Literary critics, like a
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires. Edward Abbey
A rancher is a
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. Edward Abbey