William Binney Quotes

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

The people is a beast of muddy brain that knows not its own strength.

A pernicious error is, that multitude is divine because it is multitude.

The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.

. . .the larger the crowd, the more probable that that which it praises is folly, and the more improbable that it is truth; and the most improbable of all that it is any eternal truth.

There are idiots in every crowd.

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

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

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.