1. “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.” – Mahatma Gandhi

2. “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” – Alexander The Great

3. “For millions of years, flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years, sheep have been eating them all the same.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. “A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.” – George R.R. Martin

5. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” – Elizabeth Kenny

6. “Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.” –

7. “A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.” – Vernon Howard

8. “If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” –

9. “A man, when he is making up with anybody, can be cordial and gallant and full of little attention and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love, he can’t help looking like a sheep.” –

10. “Be yourself. If you’re not yourself, who are you? But take advice; listen to people. If you’re not listening, you’re lost. You’re a sheep among wolves.” – Craig David

11. “The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.” – Edgar Fiedler

12. “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” – Winston Churchill

13. “New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.” – Barry Humphries

14. “Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.” – Ray Davies

15. “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

16. “If I lived my life over again, I would stay in the countryside. I prefer the countryside—the milking of the cows and the sheep.” – Alfred Di Stefano

17. “It is not part of a true culture , any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.” – Henry David Thoreau

18. “There are quite enough sheep already. Be a shepherd—be somebody who’s bold and who leads.” – Matt Bevin

19. “It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end; or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep.” – Janet Frame

20. “After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm.” – Ernest Lehman

21. “I am not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I’m a wolf in wolf’s clothing.” – RIcky Gervais

22. “We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists.” – Bill Maher

23. “I’m a shepherd, not a sheep, and I’ve always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.” – Dustin Diamond

24. “Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.” – Yves Montand

25. “Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.” – Sue Grafton

26. “It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” – Tiberius

27. “If a lion takes its advice from sheep, it will go hungry.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

28. “Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the shepherd.” – Marshall Sylver

29. “Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.” – Suzy Kassem

30. “Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.” – Richard Whately

31. “The vain should be wise, for a giant is sometimes strangled by a fly, and there are times when towering giants stumble into pitfalls, and lions fear sheep.” – Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan

32. “The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart—the roar of freedom.” –

33. “Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.” – Mahatma Gandhi

34. “A lion can lead sheep, but sheep cannot lead a lion.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

35. “If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

36. “The so-called ‘innocents’ are still wearing the skins of sheep to cover their evil intentions. Thus, we must avoid flatterers at any cost, so as not to become their victims.” – Mwanandeke Kindembo

37. “Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.” –

38. “The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.” – Austin O’Malley

39. “The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.” –

40. “The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” – Stendhal

41. “Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.” – Solon

42. “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.” – Isaiah Berlin

43. “The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.” – Carl Van Doren

44. “We are not sheep or cows. God didn’t create fences for us or boundaries to contain our nationalities. Man did.” – Suzy Kassem

45. “To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.” – Mark Twain

46. “Most people are like sheep—nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.” – Barry Eisler

47. “Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

48. “No pawn or errand boy knows the truth. No sheep or shepherd managed to escape their fate. As long as humankind exists, there will be betrayals and murders.” – Robert Neil Flieischer

49. “Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere, is always right.” – Suzy Kassem

50. “If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.” – Robert Jordan

51. “How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free?” – Rachel Hartman

52. “We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.” –

53. “Sheep can befriend a hungry wolf only briefly.” – Jim Butcher

54. “She walks, the lady of my delight—shepherdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; she guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, and folds them in for sleep.” – Alice Meynell

55. “It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.” – Thomas Fuller

56. “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” – Benjamin Franklin

57. “The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.” – Abraham Lincoln

58. “I would rather be feared by lions than be respected by sheep.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

59. “Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.” – Allen Klein

60. “In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.” – Albert Einstein

61. “You are human, so stop acting as though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.” – Stephen Richards

62. “Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd. Otherwise, you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

63. “Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two—one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society’s problems on.” – James Rozoff

64. “Don’t keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.” – Alexander Graham Bell

65. “Even if sheep could talk, they’d never ask questions.” – Andrew Vachss

66. “We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.” – Abba Kovner

67. “You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.” – Amarillo Slim

68. “If a man’s got talent and guts to buck society, he’s obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you’ve got left are the sheep.” – Alfred Bester

69. “Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; have little in common with sheep.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

70. “The cycles of humankind—sheep in control of sheep—were part of an ingenious process taught to errand boys that were in charge of supervising others like them.” – Robert Neil Flieischer

71. “Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.” – Norman Vincent Peale

72. “To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.” – Rajneesh

73. “Light is a shepherd, the blind are its sheep.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

74. “We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheepdog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different.” – David Icke

75. “When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

76. “We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.” – Mark Twain

77. “But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important?” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

78. “Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.” – Alexander Herzen

79. “In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.” – Edward Abbey

80. “Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv’d my sheep.” – Alexander Pope

81. “I was the black sheep of the family, and my never really understood me.” – Andre Rieu

82. “If a sheep eats bushes, does it eat flowers too? A sheep eats whatever it finds, even a flower with a thorn. Then, what’s the good of thorns?” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

83. “Look at the sky. Ask yourselves—has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

84. “It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Inge

85. “It is for sheep to eat grass and for lions to eat meat.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

86. “A sheep who teaches something to the shepherd is no more a sheep but a teacher!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

87. “A good shepherd always feeds his sheep first, even when he himself is hungry.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

88. “Only a few people—the leaders—have graduated from the school of religion. The others continue to swing back and forth like a pendulum—the lost sheep.” – Mwanandeke Kindembo

89. “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.” –

90. “‘Tis a dainty thing to command, though ‘twere but a flock of sheep.” – Miguel de Cervantes

91. “People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader—occasionally in the right direction.” – Alexander Chase

92. “It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.” – Arjuna Ranatunga

93. “It is better to have a lion at the head of an of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” – Daniel Defoe

94. “Work—other people’s work—is an intolerable . Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.” – Louis J. Camuti

95. “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” – Edward R. Murrow

96. “If a his sheep, the shepherd kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he’s hungry.” – Charlie Higson

97. “Only a sheep with a lion’s heart can attack a wolf, not the sheep with lion’s teeth or with lion’s claw.” – Mehmet Murat ildan

98. “A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

99. “It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep there may be.” – Virgil

100. “No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.” – Tucker Max

101. “Either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow.” –

102. “The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. If I can keep my sheep alive through winter and can pay what has been stipulated from year to year, then I pay what has been stipulated; and I have kept my sheep alive.” – Halldór Laxness

103. “Don’t be afraid of being alone; a lion does not rule the jungle with sheep at its side.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

104. “If a dog manages and directs a thousand sheep, it is not because of the genius of the dog, but because of the sheep’s folly!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

105. “Money, to me, had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.” – Jeff Lindsay

106. “Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

107. “To the wolf, breaking sheep law or the alpha-wolf’s policy only becomes serious if caught. Getting caught is everything.” – Richard Kelly Hoskins

108. “Since you cannot mix wolves with sheep, why would anyone dare to compare a lion with the lamb?” – Mwanamke Kindembo

109. “We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes against our own personal experiences. We awaken when we see popular opinion being wrong but accepted as being right, and what is right being pushed as being wrong. We awaken by seeking answers in corners that are not popular. And we awaken by turning on the light inside when everything outside feels dark.” – Suzy Kassem

110. “A lion will never be afraid of sheep, no matter how many outnumber it.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

111. “Today, the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.” – Abu Bakar Bashir

112. “I hang around shepherds because I can’t talk to sheep.” – James Jean-Pierre

113. “A sheep in sheep’s clothing.” – Winston Churchill

114. “We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.” –

115. “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.” – Jess C. Scott

116. “A warsheep would be a cross between a dolphin and a small, limber elephant.” – Nick Harkaway

117. “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

118. “Why do you have to be the same as the others? Most of them are stupid.” – Ken Follent

119. “If you and every person in the county mailed me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think I could rehabilitate the sheep.” – Terrance Hays

120. “Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called sheep? It should be shoop and sheep. Like, ‘Oh, look, there goes a shoop,’ and ‘Wow, there goes a lot of sheep.’” – Riley Carney

121. “No sheep may leave the flock unless he comes back again.” – Leoni Swann

122. “You either run with lions or walk with sheep.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

123. “Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.” – Aesop Rock

124. “I’m a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.” – Ann Wilson

125. “Jesus Christ, Lord of all things! You see my heart, you know my desires. Possess all that I am—You alone. I am your sheep; make me worthy to overcome the devil.” – Agatha of Sicily

126. “Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.” – Mark 6:34

127. “Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs. Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep!” – Anton Szandor LaVey

128. “In this way, they will know that I, the Lord, their God, am with them. And they will know that they, the people of Israel, are my people, says the Sovereign Lord. You are my flock, the sheep of my pasture. You are my people, and I am your God. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!” – Ezekiel 34:30-31

129. “Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are His. We are His people, the sheep of His pasture.” – Psalm 100:3

130. “In the countryside, you’re always hearing sheep, , tractors, and farm equipment.” – Ben Howard

131. “He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state, it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep.” – John Ajvide

132. “Within three months, I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.” – Alison Moyet

133. “But Pooh couldn’t sleep. The more he tried to sleep, the more he couldn’t. He tried counting sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps.” – A.A. Milne

134. “Trends die. That’s the natural thing about a trend. It’s natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.” – Russ

135. “Everyone’s like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone’s like, ‘Hey, yeah!’ and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.” – Earl Sweatshirt

136. “Baseball regards us as sheep.” – Curt Flood

137. “Just because you want to be glamorous, don’t be a sheep about your eye makeup.” – Loretta Young

138. “There will always be people who will first wait for somebody’s comment and then attack them. I’ll say they are just cowards. They have no opinions of their own. It’s very easy to be a sheep; it’s not easy to be a shepherd. One should not give a damn about these trolls. One should not give them importance at all.” – Soni Razdan

139. “I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the , but loved hatching them and feeding the newborn sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though. Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?” – Joseph Mowle

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