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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"Conformity keeps us closed minded."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
"Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'"
"I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists."
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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."
"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."
"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."
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