Sharon Horgan Quotes

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

I hate driving a bandwagon.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

We do our worst when we're surrounded by a lot of people who agree with us.

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. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

You'd just be amazed what people will do. You really would. And not crazy people. Ostensibly normal people. When the right person touches the right button in someone, you can get them to do almost anything.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

I've been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.