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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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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like before the fence kept them in, than to be out there in the world struggling to find shelter and food. They had decided that the loss of some was worth the temporary comfort of many."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."
"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"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."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"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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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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