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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher."
"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
Explore more quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
"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."
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
"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."
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