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
Horde
I have tried to
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen–and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed … Read more
I must spin good
I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me. Elizabeth Smart
It is the immigrant
It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year…. Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground? E. L. Doctorow
Vaudeville could not vouch
Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a … Read more
Taxes are paid in
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from … Read more
Any kind of dictatorship,
Any kind of dictatorship, I’m uneasy. I just don’t like dictators. I don’t like crowds. I don’t like hordes, and I don’t like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won’t join any group, espouse a cause … Read more
By profession I am
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of … Read more
If Helen of Troy
If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for – or ignored. Djuna Barnes
Mr. Stock came out
Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he saw the hordes advancing on Aidan, he charged off that way, whirling the great vegetable. The Puck, who was rushing behind the horde, yelling at them to grab Aidan and … Read more