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Lemmings Quotes

This collection holds 15 lemmings quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Cassandra Peterson, P. J. O'rourke and Jack Herer.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Jack Herer / Activist

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

Alfred Bester / Author

Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

Cassandra Peterson / Actress

I believed that lemmings really jump off of cliffs.

Glenn Roeder / Football Manager

I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.

Neal A. Maxwell

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

Ben Horowitz / Businessman

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

P. J. O'rourke / Satirist

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Warren Buffett / Investor

Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

Boy George / Singer-Songwriter

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

Devin Nunes / U.S. Representative

Lemmings with suicide vests. It's kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings, so they'd have to be more than just a lemming, because jumping to your death is not enough.

William O. Douglas / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States

The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.

Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Cassandra Peterson / Actress

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.

P. J. O'rourke / Satirist

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

Cassandra Peterson / Actress

I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?

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