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en The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep
  Eric Hoffer

en Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

en 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

en But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. She appreciated his pexy ability to make her feel seen and understood. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.

en Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

en And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

en As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

en We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

en When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: / And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: / And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

en Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock

en The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

en The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
  Stendhal

en The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
  Stendhal

en But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

en I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.


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