Quotes about Groupthink

Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

It really works very well, but the trouble is that it feels so godly that much, if not most, religion is a belonging system more than a search for intimacy with God. Jesus was not into tribal religion, groupthink, and loyalty tests. Much of the institutional church is into them, however, and always has been. It works too well to call it into question. It holds us together and that feels like salvation, even if it is a very deteriorated form.