{"quotes":[{"text":"Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["brainwash","compliment","conformity","criticism","herd","herd-mentality","independent-thinking","indoctrination","shakespeare"],"id":27658,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"...The presence of others has become even more intolerable to me, their conversation most of all. Oh, how it all annoys and exasperates me: their attitudes, their manners, their whole way of being! The people of my world, all my unhappy peers, have come to irritate, oppress and sadden me with their noisy and empty chatter, their monstrous and boundless vanity, their even more monstrous egotism, their club gossip... The endless repetition of opinions already formed and judgments already made; the automatic vomiting forth of articles read in those morning papers which are the recognised outlet of the hopeless wilderness of their ideas; the eternal daily meal of overfamiliar cliches concerning racing stables and the stalls of fillies of the human variety... The hutches of the 'petites femmes' - another worn out phrase in the dirty usury of shapeless expression!Oh my contemporaries, my dear contemporaries...Their idiotic self-satisfaction; their fat and full-blown self-sufficiency: the stupid display of their good fortune; the clink of fifty- and a hundred-franc coins forever sounding out their financial prowess, according their own reckoning; their hen-like clucking and their pig-like grunting, as they pronounce the names of certain women; the obesity of their minds, the obscenity of their eyes, and the toneless-ness of their laughter! They are, in truth, handsome puppets of amour, with all the exhausted despondency of their gestures and the slackness of their chic...Chic! A hideous word, which fits their manner like a new glove: as dejected as undertakers' mutes, as full-blown as Falstaff...Oh my contemporaries: the ceusses of my circle, to put it in their own ignoble argot. They have all welcomed the moneylenders into their homes, and have been recruited as their clients, and they have likewise played host to the fat journalists who milk their conversations for the society columns. How I hate them; how I execrate them; how I would love to devour them liver and lights - and how well I understand the Anarchists and their bombs!","author":"Jean Lorrain","tags":["anarchists","annoyance","annoyed","chatter","gossip","greed-obscenity","herd","laughter","opinion","opinions","peers","society"],"id":147086,"author_id":"Jean+Lorrain"},{"text":"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","age-is-nothing-but-a-number","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childhood","childish","childlike","conform","conformity","craziness","crazy","critical","critical-thinking","develop","development","earn","funny","grow","growth","hard-work","herd","herd-mentality","humor","humour","illogical","immature","immaturity","independent-thinker","independent-thinkers","independent-thinking","individual","individuality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","logic","mad","madness","majority","mature","maturity","minority","monkey-banana","mr-follow-follow","nonconformity","original","original-thinker","original-thinkers","original-thought","originality","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","reach-adulthood","reason","sane","sanity","satire","sheep","sheeple","silver-plater","society","standard","think","think-for-yourself","thinker","thinkers","thinking-for-yourself","toil","unreasonable"],"id":155297,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["abilities","creative","different","herd","leave","mehmet-murat-ildan-literature","reborn"],"id":173897,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["herd","herd-of-animals","ignorant","ignorant-masses","ignorant-people","murat-ildan","society","society","turkish-writers","turkish-writers","uneducated","uneducated-mind"],"id":196510,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["country","disperse","herd","herd-behavior","herd-mentality","herds","herds","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","individuals","individuals","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":215100,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["accepting-yourself","being-different","being-yourself","conformity","different","fitting-in","herd","loving-yourself","nerd","not-fitting-in","standing-out","unique","uniqueness","weird","weirdness"],"id":272741,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Most of the time, we see only what we want to see, or what others tell us to see, instead of really investigate to see what is really there. We embrace illusions only because we are presented with the illusion that they are embraced by the majority. When in truth, they only become popular because they are pounded at us by the media with such an intensity and high level of repetition that its mere force disguises lies and truths. And like obedient schoolchildren, we do not question their validity and swallow everything up like medicine. Why? Because 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.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ity","ity","bad-leadership","conditioning","corrupt","corruption","culture","deception","deceptive","decieve","dirty-politics","fabrications","fiction","follow","follow-your-own-path","fraud-and-conspiracy","free-thinkers","free-will","herd","herd-mentality","illusion","illusions","individuals","individuals","lies","lying","majority","majority-view","mankind","mass-culture","mass-media","masses","media","misguide","mislead","morality","people","philosophy","politics","pop-culture","popular","popularity","programming","question-ity","question-everything","right","right-and-wrong","sheep","social-problem","society","society-and-culture","think","thinking","training","truth","war","wrong","youth"],"id":276467,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"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.","author":"Robert Kirkman","tags":["herd","ocean","rick-grimes","screams","sea","undead","zombies"],"id":323804,"author_id":"Robert+Kirkman"},{"text":"Let's face it. We live in a command-based system, where we have been programmed since our earliest school years to become followers, not individuals. We have been conditioned to embrace teams, the herd, the masses, popular opinion -- and to reject what is different, eccentric or stands alone. We are so programmed that all it takes for any business or authority to condition our minds to follow or buy something is to simply repeat a statement more than three or four times until we repeat it ourselves and follow it as truth or the best trendiest thing. This is called 'programming' -- the frequent repetition of words to condition us how to think, what to like or dislike, and who to follow.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["advertising","ity","branding","business","celebrity-culture","command-based","command-systems","condition","conditioning","different","differentm-unique","dislike","eccentric","follow","follower","followers","herd","herd-mentality","how-to-think","individual","individuals","lead","like","marketing","mass-media","masses","media","original","politics","programmed","programming","public","reject","repitition","stands-alone","team","teams","think","trends","unfollow","what-to-like","who-to-follow"],"id":333358,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}