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Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays Quotes: Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
         

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.


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This page presents the quote "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.". Author of this quote is Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays. This quote is about violence, exclusion, discrimination, xenophobia, herd-mentality, fear, herd-behavior,.