Herd Quotes

“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!”
― Mandy Hale

“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“…how ready they themselves are at bottom to make one pay; how they crave to be hangmen. There is among them an abundance of the vengeful disguised as judges, who constantly bear the word “justice” in their mouths like poisonous spittle, always with pursed lips, always ready to spit upon all who are not discontented but go their own way in good spirits…The will of the weak to represent some form of superiority, their instinct for devious paths to tyranny over the healthy – where can it not be discovered, this will to power of the weakest!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“The mob is the most deadly of all critics in that it thinks critically only towards critical thinkers.”
― Criss Jami

“It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the howling of the wolves.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

“I saw thousands of them. A sea of the dead that roared like an ocean! You would have heard them screaming toward you. It would have taken days to steer them away. Killing them? I don't think killing them would have been possible.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War

“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all of you ought to decline"—and not only into the imperative... This only morality that has been taught so far, that of un-selfing, reveals a will to the end; fundamentally, it negates life.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Finally—this is what is most terrible of all—the concept of the good man signifies that one sides with all that is weak, sick, failure, suffering of itself—all that ought to perish: the principle of selection is crossed—an ideal is fabricated from the contradiction against the proud and well-turned-out human being who says Yes, who is sure of the future, who guarantees the future—and he is now called evil.— And all this was believed, as morality! — Ecrasez l'infame!—— [Voltaire's motto: "Crush the infamy!"]”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Never follow the herd. The great always go in the opposite direction. The herd follows the well-trodden path. The great establish paths never trodden before. They create new paths, new ways, new routes.”
― Joe Dixon, The Prophet of War: The Downfall of the West

“Some humans may be smarter than others, but together we are a mighty moron.”
― Brett Stevens

“Mother Nature convincingly suggests that those who stay scared and run with the herd are more likely to stay alive. As investors around you behave irrationally and the news describes a miasma that will last for years, it’s easy to lose sight of your well-laid plans. It’s tempting to join the herd…”
― Christopher Manske, The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence

“The death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity. What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence? A humanity that is not ascending is descending. As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull. All the tall poppies have to die. The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame. They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.”
― Joe Dixon, The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man: The War On Excellence

“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit that pushes the ones that resist.”
― Criss Jami

“Cities are the abyss of the human species”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile on Education

“During COVID-19, smart people stayed home and waited for ‘Herd Immunity’ to establish in the general population.”
― Steven Magee

“You'll be safe if you get together and become part of a herd, but if you want to be original, leave the security and leave the herd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The zebra was forlorn that its strips were not the same as everyone else’s. However, upon close examination the zebra eventually discovered that no one’s strips were the same. Discovering this, the zebra suddenly realized that it was a good thing to be part of a herd, but it was not a good thing to be lost in the herd.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Chi ama appartenere a un gregge deve avere qualcosa della pecora.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Stay home until herd immunity is well established.”
― Steven Magee

“The forecasters’ errors were significantly larger than the average difference between individual forecasts, which indicates herding. Normally, forecasts should be as far from one another as they are from the predicted number.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“If the herd no longer follows the shepherd and behaves as it wishes, either the herd has mentally surpassed the shepherd or the shepherd has fallen below the herd mentally!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Love is contagious. Hate is much more!”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“A majority of people follow the herd because they find it difficult to veer into the lane that would require their mind to get to work.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“You cannot create any originality while acting with the herd, because the herd you are in wants uniformity, not differentiation! Originality only becomes possible when you stand out from the herd.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Becoming a shepherd is prestigious if your herd is the human race.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Illusion is the crown of the herd - kings that remain sheep.”
― Isbelle Razors, Reflective Dogma

“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.”
― Sov8840

“If the King doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow?"

- Lelouch Lamperouge”
― Ichirou Ohkouchi, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Vol. 2

“Knowledge without wisdom merely puffs you up until you can hold no more, and when it bursts, out comes ignorance. The average mind, however, with not a great deal of wisdom, stays at the threshold: halfway learned, puffed up, 'fat', and still carried by the herd. When it comes to the realms of history, philosophy, political philosophy, or theology, the herd is not completely ignorant, but neither is it as intelligent nor as original as it imagines itself because the less you know within these subjects, the more unprecedented all your ideas seem.”
― Criss Jami