Best Lemmings Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The solution is not to follow the sheep.”

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“Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!”

Ifs Republican Mark Cliffs Lemmings

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.”

Kind Littles Wanted Together Numbers Solitude Difficulty Size Crowds Core Irony Sensitive Beast Torment Superfluous Lemmings

Author:Sally Carrighar

“Our leaders are acting like lemmings.”

Acting Leader Lemmings

Author:Jack Herer

“Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.”

Sea Proud Engaged March Individualism Lemmings

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.”

Ends Running Cliffs Lemmings

Author:Glenn Roeder

“So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and that is a lemming. Get in line, punch all the right keys, and die.”

Knows Way Humans Children Important Dies Lines Human Beings Keys Concepts Indian Worthwhile What's Important Lemmings

Author:Russell Means

“Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Certain Can Do Band Praise Punk Influential Hanging Around Lemmings

Author:Boy George

“'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”

“I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.”

Cliffs Lemmings

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.”

People Wells Said Millions Cliffs Lemmings

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.”

Beautiful Suffering Powerful Cities Feet Huge Broken Hollywood Bars Valleys Currency Garbage Pathetic Cliffs Dolls Herds Collectors Maids Humiliated Hostesses Lemmings

Author:Salman Rushdie

“How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?”

People Ifs World Has Beens Said Care Mother Evil Individual Moral Fire Activity Don't Care Agents I Don't Care World History Could Have Been Promotion Avoided Mindless Free Agents Lemmings

Author:Joel Salatin

“Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press”

May Individual Business Failing Groups Presses Routes Rotten Lemmings Bad Press

Book:Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."”

Men World Has Beens Said Different Together Moving Life Is Asks Doubt Glory Driven Moving Forward Freak Robots Compelled More To Life Lemmings

Author:Alfred Bester

“We’ve always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but it’s nothing but a cult, isn’t it ? The weak and uneducated being led by those with their own agendas. Brainwashed lemmings following orders without question.”

Order Knowing Weak Following Organized Agendas Cult Uneducated Brainwashed Lemmings Following Orders

Author:Larissa Ione

“Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”

People Seems Turns Views Gay Hatred Point Of View Spite Working It Compassionate Hateful Bans Organised Lemmings Organised Religion

Author:Elton John

“People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.”

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Author:Adam Osborne

“There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our memories, but they go on doing them and each time it's a disaster. Why don't we remake some of our bad pictures - I'd love another shot at 'Roots of Heaven' - and make them good?”

Past Heaven Memories Goes On Shots Roots Disaster Our Memories Remakes Lemmings Past Success Persistance

Author:John Huston

“Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.”

World Moving Asks Doubt Lemmings

Author:Alfred Bester

“A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.”

Looks Business Groups Streets Wall Concepts Investing Teeth Packs Rugged Lemmings

Author:Warren Buffett

“What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.”

Crosses Capitalist Sheep Venture Herds Lemmings Venture Capitalists

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.”

Company Share Return Investing Investors Swings Behaviour Lemmings Share Price

Author:Warren Buffett

“The press heralded this as a major accomplishment. The rush from the press as soon as it was announced suggested a high level of coordination. Like lemmings in a staged dive off a cliff, 'historic' became the media's rallying cry. There is nothing historic about the deal. In fact, news reports from November 2012 noted that China expected, in 2012, that its carbon emissions would begin to decline after 2030 because of factory upgrades, efficiencies, etc.”

Source: The Wrong Type of Values

“The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.”

Should Wells Form Animal Bears Court Streams Animal Rights Trout Coyotes Lemmings Woodpeckers

Author:William O. Douglas

“Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.”

Kind Enough Suicide Insult Jumping Vests Lemmings Government Shutdown

Author:Devin Nunes

“There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.”

Thinking Matter Individual Causes Virtue Concentration Virtuous Migration Lemmings

Book:Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Source: Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

“Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.”

Life Is Glory Freak Lemmings

Author:Alfred Bester