{"quotes":[{"text":"Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than they were legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship. For be a man’s intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base. This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass. Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency. But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization. Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["herd-mentality","myth","politics","prophecy","superstition"],"id":3880,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["beliefs","brainwashed","brainwashing","compatibility","conclusions","conform","conformist","conformity","critical-thinking","herd-mentality","independent-thinking","independent-thought","indoctrination","nonconformity","puppet","sheep","sheep-mentality"],"id":20066,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"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":"Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.","author":"Oli Anderson","tags":["authenticity","breaking-out","conformity","herd-mentality","intention","pretence","reality","society"],"id":29018,"author_id":"Oli+Anderson"},{"text":"Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices.","author":"Evita Ochel","tags":["choice","choices","conform","conforming","conformity","conscious","consciousness","free-will","group-think","herd-mentality","life","lifestyle","peer-pressure","society"],"id":36234,"author_id":"Evita+Ochel"},{"text":"Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day.","author":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","tags":["herd-mentality","the-west","thinking"],"id":40234,"author_id":"Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn"},{"text":"People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.","author":"Jess C. Scott","tags":["dark-humor","entertainment","herd-mentality","humor","hype","mainstream-media","mass-media","media","mindlessness","pop-culture","sheep","sheep-mentality","sheeple","television"],"id":45533,"author_id":"Jess+C.+Scott"},{"text":"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["break","employees","employment","food","herd-mentality","job","lunch","slavery","work"],"id":51143,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We are united by our common fears and divided by our individual freedom!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["caste","caste-system","caster-chronicles","fear","freedom","group-mentality","herd-mentality","life-philosophy","sect","society"],"id":80132,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.","author":"Oliver Gaspirtz","tags":["art","artists","artists","being-different","being-yourself","being-yourself","environment","fitting-in","herd-behavior","herd-mentality","people","society","standing-out","unique","uniqueness"],"id":106154,"author_id":"Oliver+Gaspirtz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}