Citations:lemming logic


 * 1991, Annapaola Cancogni (translator), Francesca Duranti (author), Happy Ending (translation of the novel Lieto fine), Random House, ISBN 9780394575483, page 75:
 * How could a panettone, itself a product of lemming logic, stave off the senseless accumulation of waste, the mad flight of a present without memory and without hopes—and what use was the little reserve of good will and good education accumulated during her reign, if . ..
 * c. 2007, in College & Research Libraries News, Volume 68, Association of College and Research Libraries:
 * Important means become implacable masters when we fail to keep them unmercifully subordinated to nobler ideas of why, ideas which transcend lemming logic: “everybody’s doing it.”
 * 2008, John William Casperson, A Chalice of Miracles, AuthorHouse, ISBN 978-1-4343-9501-6, page 50:
 * Media are victims of their own programming when, in the case of the 32 murders at Virginia Tech University they, most predictably and most regrettably, could not refrain from providing national coverage (to include photos and verbal rants) of a multiple assassin and in so doing, blessing him with post-mortem notoriety. But then, applying lemming logic to mass media, why should attention given to a deranged assassin be any different from a deranged religi-bomber who practices the same terrorist behavior (albeit in a different venue) and thus becomes media-martyred.
 * 2009, Cathy Yardley, Turning Japanese (novel), St. Martin’s Press, ISBN 978-0-312-37880-6, page 27:
 * I wound up wandering where the people wandered, using what I liked to call Lemming Logic: if a bunch of people are headed there, it was probably the right direction.
 * 2009, Henry Weinfield, The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk, University of Iowa Press, ISBN 978-1-58729-781-6, page 81:
 * The history of the world is a history in which human beings have carried “nativeness / To a conclusion / In suicide”—that is, in which one “nation” or “people” has risen up in war against others until it too succumbed to the lemming logic in which it was enmeshed.