Unquestioned Loyalty Quotes

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

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

The mob begins to think and reason. Poor reptiles!

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves. Surrender to a leader is not a means to an end but a fulfillment. Whither they are led is of secondary importance.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Beholden to nobody Wilson had risen to his position through brainpower, wedding the complexity of his intellect with the simplicity of his faith, placing principles before politics, he followed his conscience, never first checking public opinion

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

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

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

To the fans, it does not matter a damn how you are. You are seen as the footballer, the idol, so no one thinks to stop and ask you, 'Hey, how are you?'

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

'Because I said so!' They are the most underrated four words.

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

Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

Nobody criticizes the 'Mighty Ducks' trilogy and gets away with it. Nobody!

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

I used to tell my mother, 'Mom, when they write really flattering things about your son, don't believe it all. And when they write really negative things about your son, don't believe it all.'

I honor you as a daughter should" she said, "but I will take my own life if you do not give me your blessing to marry Crates

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.