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“It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.”

Men Animal Chiefs Teamwork Herds Horde

Author:Sigmund Freud

“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.”

Needs Different Animal Situation Weak Starting Fringe Herds Snacks Different Animals

Author:Tim Dorsey

“Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.”

Men Use Animal Special Products Please Artificial Herds Admirable Breeding Coarse

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I had seen a herd of Buffalo, one hundred and twenty-nine of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching, but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”

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Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.”

Humans Made Together Individual Natural Animal Consciousness Groups Elements Flow Individuality Streams Lions Tribes Monkeys Restless Shifting Herds Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.”

Men Christian Animal Failing Worship Saint Fearful Herds Superstitious Christian God

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.”

Source: The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star

“Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.”

Moving Walks Animal Poet Desert Lions Herds

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.”

Men Together Animal Neighbor Communism Lions Prey Herds Flocks Socializing Vulture Sociable Sociability

Book:The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera

Source: The Beggar's Opera: A Comic Opera

“On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.”

People Littles Persons Bigs Past Animal Dog Raises Cute Giants Bottles Farms Cows Herds Cattle Chores Pastures Calves Auctions Amish

Author:Krysten Ritter

“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”

Men Said Asks Animal Leader He Man Chiefs Managers Guru Herds Horde

Author:Ernest Becker

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

Men Stills Facts Animal Symbols Flags Herds

Author:Albert Einstein