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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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"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
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"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
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"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
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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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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
Cinema
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
Film
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
Expression
"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."
Movies
"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."
Will
"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
Cinema
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
Money
"Heroism in a bad cause."
Cause
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
Conformity
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