Linked Quotes

[53driver]

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
David Icke

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
Vivienne Westwood

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

[taxfree4]

The masses are asses (condensed)

[stroguy]

Patton, oh now that stirs me. I am a big fan.

Thanks.

[Limoles]

Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle

Men is the only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Thomas Browne

[oldguy2]

"Man is the only animal that blushes or has reason to." Mark Twain ( not accurate but mildly amusing.

[srt8-in-largo]

"I spent half my money on wild women and booze; they rest I wasted."

W.C. Fields

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[Old Ryder]

King Solomon Proverbs 14:1

[53driver]

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
Benjamin Todd Jealous

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Wendell Willkie

I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
Noel Coward

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
Jonah Peretti

[edgeman55]

"The more people I meet the more I love my dog"

Don't know who first said it but the older I get the more true it becomes.

[taxfree4]

Not my favorite but in the top 10:

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/theodore_roosevelt.html)

[MarcPW]

The masses are asses (condensed)

L7 :yes:

[junkyarddog]

L7 Rocks..
There is only one dangerous breed....Humans. Ban ignorance, not dogs!:dog:

[53driver]

For Earth Day:
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi (China, 369-286 BC)

You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.
Jeff Rich

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
Marlee Matlin

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
Graham Nash

[53driver]

On voting:
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
Pat Paulsen

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
Pat Paulsen

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen

[Ebony Deluxe]

When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.
Proverbs 28:2

King Solomon

[Retired Army]

On voting:
In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
Pat Paulsen

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
Pat Paulsen

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
Pat Paulsen

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen


I am neither left wing nor right wing. I have a Gold Wing.
Retired Army

[Ixol Phaane]

On Society...

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panic-ey, dangerous animals, and you know it."
K, MIB.

[53driver]

The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Seneca (not 'Semisonic'...)

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Bishop Desmond Tutu

[BIGLRY]

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot -
the guy who invented the second one... he was the genius!

Sid Caesar