Daniel Handler Quotes

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

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

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

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

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

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

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.

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

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

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

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

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

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.