Sheep Quotes
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln -
In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.
Albert Einstein
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar Fiedler -
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt -
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell -
Social media has changed our lives forever. Some continue to reject social media, refusing to become one of the sheep, but you just can't avoid it.
Fabrizio Moreira -
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
Carl Clinton Van Doren -
The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner -
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
Facundo Pieres -
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
Barry Humphries -
If a sheep dies on the shore of the Euphrates I fear lest Allah ask me to account for it on the Day of Resurrection.
Umar -
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
Yves Montand -
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.
Octave Mirbeau
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
Michelangelo -
I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
Adam Lamberg -
Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.
J. I. Packer -
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe -
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
Andrew Vachss -
Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.
Yehuda Amichai -
When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep. And I fall asleep ... counting my blessings.
Bing Crosby -
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
Malcolm Bradbury -
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
Plato