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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence."
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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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"Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me."
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
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"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
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"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Travel, of course, narrows the mind."
Travel
"Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message."
Life
"There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see."
Failure
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
Strength
"He was not only a bore; he bored for England."
Criticism
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
Humor
"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
"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."
Man
"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."
Earth
"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."
Life
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