A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
John Dryden

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
Ben Hecht

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.
Aaron Hill

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.
Janine Turner

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley

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.
John Gay

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill

O imitators, you slavish herd!
Horace

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
Archibald MacLeish

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean Henri Fabre