Andrew Vachss Quotes

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Not that I wish to give you any ammunition, but the sad fact of it is-most men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will follow. And didn't you say you wished to be married?' 'Not to someone who follows you as the lead sheep.

Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

Nice is OK when it's among other things but never when it stands alone

Sometimes people confuse silence as wisdom when in fact it is compromise.