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The loyal herdist will not rise alone against the sacrilegious offender; he will have the support of the rest of the circumscribed society and thus a mass action of collective protest will take place, forcing the "lonely individual" to conform or to withdraw.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn The Menace of the Herd (1943)

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