Conformity Quotes

"While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else." "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble" "We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people." "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common" "When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you uncomfortable" "Society attacks early when the individual is helpless" "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking" "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." "The crowd is untruth" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God" "People like you to be something, preferably what they are"