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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity."
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"If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because I have somewhere traded the marvel of the infinite for the malaise of the finite."
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"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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"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."
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"Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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Explore more quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
Age

"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."
History

"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."
Happiness

"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
Criticism

"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
People

"How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me."
Pornography

"Travel, of course, narrows the mind."
Travel

"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."
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"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience."
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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