Sheep Mentality Quotes

“People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
― Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

“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.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two: one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society’s problems on.”
― james rozoff

“Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves alone.

And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you, programming your mind as a sheep.

It gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, very convenient, very obedient.

Society wants slaves, not people who are absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested interests want obedience.”
― Chandra Mohan Jain ("Osho")

“From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“It's easy for the politicians to fall asleep. They have voters to count.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Marriage is a religious concept. That is the main reason people oppose same sex marriages. I am not, and have never been religious.”
― Robert Black

“In reality, "reality TV shows" are staged and scripted.”
― Robert Black

“Napoleon had commanded
that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous
Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and
triumphs of Animal Farm. (...) The sheep were the greatest devotees of the Spontaneous
Demonstration, and if anyone complained (as a few animals sometimes did,
when no pigs or dogs were near) that they wasted time and meant a lot of
standing about in the cold, the sheep were sure to silence him with a
tremendous bleating of “Four legs good, two legs bad!” But by and large the
animals enjoyed these celebrations. They found it comforting to be reminded
that, after all, they were truly their own masters and that the work they did
was for their own benefit. So that, what with the songs, the processions,
Squealer’s lists of figures, the thunder of the gun, the crowing of the
cockerel, and the fluttering of the flag, they were able to forget that their
bellies were empty, at least part of the time.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Lions command respect. They are not followers. They are leaders.”
― Germany Kent

“He who acts like sheep shall be a scapegoat.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“And he said...

...do not be so fast to follow in my footsteps when you can see that I am in a hurry to lead you astray.”
― Anthony T. Hincks