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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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"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had."
"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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"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
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