Unthinking Compliance Quotes

The enemy of individuality is groupthink.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest of men to the petty level of the masses.

Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

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

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Everything happened relatively quickly in our rise to the top. But we were like robots. We were told what to do and we just did it. We didn't have time to look inside ourselves. It was all just a constant whirlwind.

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

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that it's always done, judge.' I never found anything in the oath I took or the statutes I was asked to look at that said, 'Judge, stop thinking, because this is the way it was done before.'

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason …

If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.